linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] RISC-V: Detect XVentanaCondOps from ISA string

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Date:   Sun, 1 Oct 2023 23:27:00 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Anup Patel <apatel@...tanamicro.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Atish Patra <atishp@...shpatra.org>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>,
        Mayuresh Chitale <mchitale@...tanamicro.com>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] RISC-V: Detect XVentanaCondOps from ISA string

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 09:23:37AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> The Veyron-V1 CPU supports custom conditional arithmetic and
> conditional-select/move operations referred to as XVentanaCondOps
> extension. In fact, QEMU RISC-V also has support for emulating
> XVentanaCondOps extension.
> 
> Let us detect XVentanaCondOps extension from ISA string available
> through DT or ACPI.

Umm, I though Linux/riscv would never support vendor specific
extensions?