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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/4] RISC-V: Support case insensitive ISA string parsing.
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On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 15:20:47 PDT (-0700), Atish Patra wrote:
> On 7/26/19 1:47 PM, Paul Walmsley wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Jul 2019, Atish Patra wrote:
>>
>>> As per riscv specification, ISA naming strings are
>>> case insensitive. However, currently only lower case
>>> strings are parsed during cpu procfs.
>>>
>>> Support parsing of upper case letters as well.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
>>
>> Is there a use case that's driving this, or
>
> Currently, we use all lower case isa string in kvmtool. But somebody can
> have uppercase letters in future as spec allows it.
>
>
> can we just say, "use
>> lowercase letters" and leave it at that?
>>
>
> In that case, it will not comply with RISC-V spec. Is that okay ?

We could make the platform spec say "use lowercase letters" and wipe our hands
of it -- IIRC we still only support the lower case letters in GCC due to
multilib headaches, so it's kind of the de-facto standard already.

>
>>
>> - Paul
>>

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