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Comment by saagarjha

2 years ago

What makes you think RISC-V is a good fit for device configuration?

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snvzz  2 years ago

Simplicity, lack of flags or arithmetic exceptions, as well as clear ABI and environment call mechanism.

Hardware access could be clearly gated through ecalls, and the mechanisms for this could exist as a standard extension in the SBI interface.

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