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      Merge patch series "riscv: allow case-insensitive ISA string parsing" · 748462b5
      Palmer Dabbelt authored
      Yangyu Chen <cyy@cyyself.name> says:
      
      This patchset allows case-insensitive ISA string parsing, which is
      needed in the ACPI environment. As the RISC-V Hart Capabilities Table
      (RHCT) description in UEFI Forum ECR[1] shows the format of the ISA
      string is defined in the RISC-V unprivileged specification[2]. However,
      the RISC-V unprivileged specification defines the ISA naming strings are
      case-insensitive while the current ISA string parser in the kernel only
      accepts lowercase letters. In this case, the kernel should allow
      case-insensitive ISA string parsing. Moreover, this reason has been
      discussed in Conor's patch[3]. And I have also checked the current ISA
      string parsing in the recent ACPI support patch[4] will also call
      `riscv_fill_hwcap` function as DT we use now.
      
      The original motivation for my patch v1[5] is that some SoC generators
      will provide generated DT with illegal ISA string in dt-binding such as
      rocket-chip, which will even cause kernel panic in some cases as I
      mentioned in v1[5]. Now, the rocket-chip has been fixed in PR #3333[6].
      However, when using some specific version of rocket-chip with
      illegal ISA string in DT, this patchset will also work for parsing
      uppercase letters correctly in DT, thus will have better compatibility.
      
      In summary, this patch not only works for case-insensitive ISA string
      parsing to meet the requirements in ECR[1] but also can be a workaround
      for some specific versions of rocket-chip.
      
      * b4-shazam-merge:
        dt-bindings: riscv: drop invalid comment about riscv,isa lower-case reasoning
        riscv: allow case-insensitive ISA string parsing
      
      Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_E6911C8D71F5624E432A1AFDF86804C3B509@qq.comSigned-off-by: default avatarPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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