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Re: [PATCH 1/1] Cache Coherency and ASID Requirements for OS-A platform

Kumar Sankaran
 

OK agreed. We can remove the ASID requirement all together.

 

Regards

Kumar

From: Greg Favor <gfavor@...>
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2021 8:05 PM
To: Andrew Waterman <andrew@...>
Cc: Jonathan Behrens <behrensj@...>; Kumar Sankaran <ksankaran@...>; tech-unixplatformspec@...
Subject: Re: [RISC-V] [tech-unixplatformspec] [PATCH 1/1] Cache Coherency and ASID Requirements for OS-A platform

 

On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 8:00 PM Andrew Waterman <andrew@...> wrote:

My take is we should avoid imposing this requirement altogether. Kernel software needs to support the no-ASID case, anyway, so we aren’t simplifying software by imposing this requirement.

 

Recent platform discussion about this question concluded the same.

 

Greg

 

 
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