Re: [RFC 0/2] RISC-V: A proposal to add vendor-specific code

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Nov 05 2018 - 02:06:03 EST


On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 02:58:07PM +0800, Vincent Chen wrote:
> Many thanks for kinds of comments. I quickly synthesize the comments and
> list them as below.
> 1. The kernel image shall include all vendor-specific code.

I fundamentally disagree with thisâ and think it should be the contrary.

1. The kernel shall support no vendor specific instructions whatsoever,
period.