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Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] RISC-V: A proposal to add vendor-specific code
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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 this… and think it should be the contrary.

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