Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] dt-bindings: riscv: add new riscv,isa strings for emulators

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2022 19:33:19 +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> From: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
> 
> The QEMU virt and spike machines currently export a riscv,isa string of
> "rv64imafdcsuh",
> 
> While the RISC-V foundation has been ratifying a bunch of extenstions
> etc, the kernel has remained relatively static with what hardware is
> supported - but the same is not true of QEMU. Using the virt machine
> and running dt-validate on the dumped dtb fails, partly due to the
> unexpected isa string.
> 
> Rather than enumerate the many many possbilities, change the pattern
> to a regex, with the following assumptions:
> - ima are required
> - the single letter order is fixed & we don't care about things that
>   can't even do "ima"
> - the standard multi letter extensions are all in a "_z<foo>" format
>   where the first letter of <foo> is a valid single letter extension
> - _s & _h are used for supervisor and hyper visor extensions
> - convention says that after the first two chars, a standard multi
>   letter extension name could be an english word (ifencei anyone?) so
>   it's not worth restricting the charset
> - as the above is just convention, don't apply any charset restrictions
>   to reduce future churn
> - vendor ISA extensions begind with _x and have no charset restrictions
> - we don't care about an e extension from an OS pov
> - that attempting to validate the contents of the multiletter extensions
>   with dt-validate beyond the formatting is a futile, massively verbose
>   or unwieldy exercise at best
> 
> The following limitations also apply:
> - multi letter extension ordering is not enforced. dt-schema does not
>   appear to allow for named match groups, so the resulting regex would
>   be even more of a headache
> - ditto for the numbered extensions
> 
> Finally, add me as a maintainer of the binding so that when it breaks
> in the future, I can be held responsible!
> 
> Reported-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20220803170552.GA2250266-robh@kernel.org/
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
> Acked-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
> ---
> Palmer, feel free to drop the maintainer addition. I just mostly want
> to clean up my own mess on this when they decide to ratify more
> extensions & this comes back up again.
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>