As per the discussion in the mailing list, M-mode requirements
should not be included in this version of the platform specification
to allow platform vendors more flexibility in implementing privilege
modes. Moreover, platform specification doesn't guarantee inter-operability
between M-mode software/firmwares. Thus, specifying M-mode requirements
adds restriction while not providing any significant value.

Remove the machine mode requirements for this version of the platform
specification.

Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atishp@...>
---
riscv-platform-spec.adoc | 57 +++-------------------------------------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)

diff --git a/riscv-platform-spec.adoc b/riscv-platform-spec.adoc
index b2388dbaf834..e20703299937 100644
--- a/riscv-platform-spec.adoc
+++ b/riscv-platform-spec.adoc
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ toc::[]
|OSPM | Operating System Power Management
|RVA22U64 | RISC-V 2022 user-mode profile <<spec_profiles>>
|RVA22S64 | RISC-V 2022 supervisor-mode profile <<spec_profiles>>
-|RVA22M64 | RISC-V 2022 machine-mode profile <<spec_profiles>>
|RAS | Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability
|CLINT | Legacy Core-Local Interrupt Controller
|ACLINT | Advanced Core-Local Interrupt Controller <<spec_aclint>>
@@ -98,6 +97,10 @@ feature set and extensions as shown below: +
** *Base*
** *Physical Memory Protection (PMP) Extension*

+The current version of this platform spec targets the standardization of
+functionality available in S, U, VS and VU modes, and the standardization of
+the SBI (Supervisory Binary Interface as defined in <<spec_sbi>>) between
+Supervisor level (S-mode/VS-mode) and M-mode/HS-mode respectively.

// OS-A Platform
== OS-A Platform
@@ -111,7 +114,6 @@ feature set and extensions as shown below: +
RISC-V profiles specification <<spec_profiles>>.
** RVA22U profile for user-mode.
** RVA22S profile for supervisor-mode.
-** RVM20M64 profile for machine-mode.
*** The I, M, A, C extensions must be supported.

===== General
@@ -143,48 +145,6 @@ to all hart-related caches.
User-mode programs should not execute the `fence.i` instruction.

--
-===== Machine Mode
-* mvendorid, marchid, mimpid and mhartid registers must be supported and not
-hardwired to 0.
-
-* mstatus
-** TVM bit must not be hardwired to 0.
-** TW bit must not be hardwired to 0.
-** TSR bit must not be hardwired to 0.
-** MBE, SBE and UBE must each be either hardwired to 0 or writable and
-initialized by reset or boot firmware for LE operation.
-
-* mtvec
-** Both direct and vectored modes must be supported.
-** The alignment constraint for BASE fields must be at most 256B.
-
-* medeleg
-** All bits for defined and supported exceptions except 'Environment call
-from M-mode' must be writable.
-
-* mideleg
-** Bits for MSI, MTI and MEI must be hardwired to 0.
-
-* mcounteren
-** Writeable bits must be implemented for all supported (not hardwired to zero)
-hpmcounters.
-
-* mcountinhibit
-** Writeable bits must be implemented for all supported (not hardwired to zero)
-hpmcounters.
-
-* mtval
-** mtval must not be hardwired to 0 and in all cases must be written with
-non-zero and zero values as architecturally defined.
-
-* mtval2
-** If H extension is supported then mtval2 must not be hardwired to 0 and in
-all cases must be written with non-zero and zero values as architecturally
-defined.
-
-* PMP
-** Minimum of 4 PMP regions must be supported.
-
===== Supervisor mode
* sstatus
** sstatus.UBE must support the same access attribute (read-only or writable)
@@ -554,11 +514,6 @@ information population <<spec_unified_discovery>>.
** SBI HSM
** SBI SRST
** SBI PMU
-* Required features of the M-Mode runtime also include:
-** Delegate interrupts and exceptions to S-mode.
-** Handle misaligned load and store.
-** Emulate missing CSRs.
-** Configure PMP CSRs.

===== UEFI

@@ -603,10 +558,6 @@ satisfying a requirement.
There should be hardware support for all misaligned accesses; misaligned
accesses should not take address misaligned exceptions.

-===== Machine Mode
-* PMP/ePMP
-** Minimum of 16 PMP regions must be supported.
-
===== Supervisor mode
* satp
** For RV64, Sv48 translation mode must be supported.
--
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