On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 07:17:45AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 04:46:10PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: > > I agree that we need a place for vendor-specific ISA extensions and > > having vendor-specific directories is also good. > > The only sensible answer is that we should not allow vendor specific > extensions in the kernel at all. ...
How can this even be possible if a extension includes an extra register set as some domain-specific context? In such a case, kernel should at least process the context during any context switch, just like how it deals with the FP context. > ... We need to standardize cache flushing > and we need to do it soon and not introduce horrible bandaids because > the foundation did not do its work. > > _______________________________________________ > linux-riscv mailing list > linux-ri...@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-riscv
