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From:   Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
To:     Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] RISC-V: Support case insensitive ISA string
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On Sat, 27 Jul 2019, Anup Patel wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 1:46 PM Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 27 Jul 2019, Anup Patel wrote:
> >
> > > If your only objection is uppercase letter not agreeing with YMAL 
> > > schema then why not fix the YMAL schema to have regex for RISC-V ISA 
> > > string?
> >
> > I don't agree with you that the specification compels software to 
> > accept arbitrary case combinations in the riscv,isa DT string.
> 
> DT describes HW and HW follows RISC-V spec.

The RISC-V specification doesn't specify anything about how the DT data is 
to describe the hardware.

> Enforcing software choices in DT YMAL schema is not correct approach.

That's the point of the DT YAML schemas.


- Paul