From 7f2cbd46ec082e8070d87d44e1b0236f723e9aca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:53:21 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] start filling in --- isa_conflict_resolution.mdwn | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/isa_conflict_resolution.mdwn b/isa_conflict_resolution.mdwn index 934269ae9..bf036f649 100644 --- a/isa_conflict_resolution.mdwn +++ b/isa_conflict_resolution.mdwn @@ -239,13 +239,13 @@ separate page? review this para?**) TBD paraphrase and clarify -Coming out of the software-related proposal by Jacob, which hinged on -the idea of a global gcc / binutils database that kept and coordinated -architectural encodings, was to quite simply make the mvendorid and -marchid CSRs have WARL (writeable) characteristics. For instances -where mvendorid and marchid are readable, that would be taken to be -a Standards-mandatory "declaration" that the architecture has *no* -Custom Extensions. +Coming out of the software-related proposal by Jacob Bachmeyer, which +hinged on the idea of a globally-maintained gcc / binutils database +that kept and coordinated architectural encodings (curated by the Free +Software Foundation), was to quite simply make the mvendorid and marchid +CSRs have WARL (writeable) characteristics. For instances where mvendorid +and marchid are readable, that would be taken to be a Standards-mandatory +"declaration" that the architecture has *no* Custom Extensions. This incredibly simple non-invasive idea has some unique and distinct advantages over other proposals: -- 2.30.2