linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/15] riscv: clear the instruction cache and all registers when booting

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Date:   Wed, 14 Aug 2019 09:07:08 +0800
From:   Alan Kao <alankao@...estech.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
CC:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@....com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
        <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "Paul Walmsley" <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/15] riscv: clear the instruction cache and all
 registers when booting


Please ignore the previous mail, I must have missed this part of the patch,
> 
> > +	csrr	t0, CSR_MISA
> > +	andi	t0, t0, (COMPAT_HWCAP_ISA_F | COMPAT_HWCAP_ISA_D)
> > +	bnez	t0, .Lreset_regs_done
> > +

In S-mode we were not able to obtain the ISA information in misa, but now
the nommu port is in M-mode so this is rather straightforward.