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From: Alan Kao <alankao@andestech.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>, Zong Li <zong@andestech.com>,
	Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	<greentime@andestech.com>, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List"
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <vincentc@andestech.com>,
	<linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org>, <deanbo422@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] RISC-V: A proposal to add vendor-specific code
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 08:55:42 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181101005541.GA25604@andestech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181031141745.GA5183@infradead.org>

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.
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-01  0:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-31 10:35 [RFC 0/2] RISC-V: A proposal to add vendor-specific code Vincent Chen
2018-10-31 10:35 ` [RFC 1/2] RISC-V: An infrastructure " Vincent Chen
2018-10-31 10:35 ` [RFC 2/2] RISC-V: make dma_map_ops work without cache coherent agent Vincent Chen
2018-10-31 11:16 ` [RFC 0/2] RISC-V: A proposal to add vendor-specific code Anup Patel
2018-10-31 11:45   ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-10-31 14:17   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-01  0:55     ` Alan Kao [this message]
2018-11-01 17:50       ` Palmer Dabbelt
2018-11-02  0:41         ` Alan Kao
2018-10-31 17:27   ` Palmer Dabbelt
2018-10-31 19:17     ` Olof Johansson
2018-11-01 17:48     ` Karsten Merker
2018-11-05  6:58       ` Vincent Chen
2018-11-05  7:05         ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-05  8:52           ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-11-05  9:08             ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-05 13:51               ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-11-06  6:59                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-06 23:45             ` Palmer Dabbelt
2018-11-07  9:51               ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-11-06 23:45         ` Palmer Dabbelt
2018-11-08  2:43           ` Vincent Chen
2018-11-05 19:39 ` Nick Kossifidis
2018-11-06  6:56   ` Christoph Hellwig

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