linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] RISC-V: Detect AIA CSRs from ISA string

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Date:   Tue, 21 Feb 2023 10:51:13 +0000
From:   Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@...c27.com>
To:     Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>
Cc:     Christoph Müllner <christoph.muellner@...ll.eu>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Anup Patel <apatel@...tanamicro.com>, pbonzini@...hat.com,
        Atish Patra <atishp@...shpatra.org>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>,
        Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-riscv <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] RISC-V: Detect AIA CSRs from ISA string

On 21 Feb 2023, at 10:40, Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey Christoph,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 08:12:58AM +0100, Christoph Müllner wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> The RISC-V Architectural Review Committee has discussed the concerns
>> regarding the non-ratified chapters in the AIA specification.
> 
> Thanks for the update!
> 
>> Here is the relevant quote from the meeting minutes:
>> """
>> Although the Advanced Interrupt Architecture (AIA) has already passed
>> Architecture Review (with a minor edit still pending), the committee
>> has some suggestions about its final steps to ratification, to avoid
>> the AIA document having a mixture of ratified and non-ratified content:
> 
>> - The AIA document's remaining draft chapter on the Duo-PLIC, which is
>>  not currently on a path to ratification, can be removed to a separate
>>  document.
> 
> That sounds promising...
> 
>> - Ratification of the full AIA (without Duo-PLIC) can be postponed to
>>  coincide with ratification of the IOMMU specification, given that
>>  the latter is now expected in a reasonable time, and the AIA's last
>>  chapter concerning IOMMUs is already scheduled to go through public
>>  review and be ratified only together with the IOMMU specification.
>> """
> 
> ...and so does this. AIA stuff's acceptability only depending on the
> IOMMU spec's freeze (and thus Chapter 9's) seems like a vast improvement
> on the status quo to me!
> 
>> The full meeting minutes can be found here:
>>  https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-chairs/message/1381
> 
> This link is non functional unfortunately :/

tech-chairs is private, for (co-)chairs only... not sure why it went
there rather than tech-privileged.

Jess

> Cheers,
> Conor.
> 
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