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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] irqchip/sifive-plic: Name the chip more
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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.
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