Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jun 2022 08:11:46 +0100 | From | Marc Zyngier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] irqchip/sifive-plic: Name the chip more generically |
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On 2022-06-27 06:12, Samuel Holland wrote: > The interface for SiFive's PLIC was adopted and clarified by RISC-V as > the standard PLIC interface. Now that several PLIC implementations by > different vendors share this same interface, it is somewhat misleading > to report "SiFive PLIC" to userspace, when no SiFive hardware may be > present. This is especially the case when some implementations are > subtly incompatible with the binding and behavior of the SiFive PLIC, > yet are similar enough to share a driver.
Too late. This is ABI, and not changing, exactly because userspace sees it.
M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...
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