Re: [PATCH 6/6] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: RISC-V PLIC documentation

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 04:46:30PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> Perhaps this should be 'sifive,plic0'

Excepet for the fact this the old name has already been in shipping
hardware and release of qemu and other emulators it should.

> Normally this would have an SoC specific compatible too. Sometimes we 
> can get away without, but it doesn't seem like the PLIC is very tightly 
> specified nor has common implementations.

It is a giant f***cking mess to be honest.  Adding a highlevel spec
to the ISA but not a register layout is completely idotic, but if you
look at the current riscv-sw list this decision is still defended by
SiFive / the RISC-V foundation.  The whole stale of the RISC-V platform
Ecosystem is rather pathetic unfortunately, and people don't seem to
be willing to learn from past good practice nor mistakes in ARM land.