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Re: [PATCH RESEND v8 10/20] target/riscv: add 'max' CPU type


From: Andrew Jones
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v8 10/20] target/riscv: add 'max' CPU type
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 15:11:03 +0200

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 07:14:30PM -0300, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
> The 'max' CPU type is used by tooling to determine what's the most
> capable CPU a current QEMU version implements. Other archs such as ARM
> implements this type. Let's add it to RISC-V.
> 
> What we consider "most capable CPU" in this context are related to
> ratified, non-vendor extensions. This means that we want the 'max' CPU
> to enable all (possible) ratified extensions by default. The reasoning
> behind this design is (1) vendor extensions can conflict with each other
> and we won't play favorities deciding which one is default or not and
> (2) non-ratified extensions are always prone to changes, not being
> stable enough to be enabled by default.
> 
> All this said, we're still not able to enable all ratified extensions
> due to conflicts between them. Zfinx and all its dependencies aren't
> enabled because of a conflict with RVF. zce, zcmp and zcmt are also
> disabled due to RVD conflicts. When running with 64 bits we're also
> disabling zcf.
> 
> MISA bits RVG, RVJ and RVV are also being set manually since they're
> default disabled.
> 
> This is the resulting 'riscv,isa' DT for this new CPU:
> 
> rv64imafdcvh_zicbom_zicboz_zicsr_zifencei_zihintpause_zawrs_zfa_
> zfh_zfhmin_zca_zcb_zcd_zba_zbb_zbc_zbkb_zbkc_zbkx_zbs_zk_zkn_zknd_
> zkne_zknh_zkr_zks_zksed_zksh_zkt_zve32f_zve64f_zve64d_
> smstateen_sscofpmf_sstc_svadu_svinval_svnapot_svpbmt
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <dbarboza@ventanamicro.com>
> Reviewed-by: Weiwei Li <liweiwei@iscas.ac.cn>
> Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
> ---
>  target/riscv/cpu-qom.h |  1 +
>  target/riscv/cpu.c     | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 57 insertions(+)
>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>




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