Re: [PATCH] riscv: kbuild: drop CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_C

From: Darius Rad
Date: Mon Aug 12 2019 - 15:49:10 EST


On 8/12/19 11:03 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 02:18:53PM +0200, Charles Papon wrote:
Please do not drop it.

Compressed instruction extension has some specific overhead in small
RISC-V FPGA softcore, especialy in the ones which can't implement the
register file read in a asynchronous manner because of the FPGA
technology.
What are reasons to enforce RVC ?

Because it it the unix platform baseline as stated in the patch.


The same argument could be made for an FPU or MMU, yet there are options to disable those.