[libre-riscv-dev] power pc

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 8:57 PM Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:

> from reading the Power spec and Linux source, Power saves and restores all
> registers in a similar fashion for interrupts (there aren't any mips-like
> reserved-for-os GPRs).

gooood.  oh - could you send me a link to some git-browse-tree-thing
which references the power context-switch source (and line)?  i'll put
it in the wiki.

> the important part is that they're all
> saved/restored, not how they're saved/restored.

okaay awesome.

> we should be able to get risc-v to work just fine by writing a new entry
> point and/or using the kvm subsystem.
>
> the power syscall entry point doesn't save everything because it's more
> like a function call than an interrupt. all that's needed is for risc-v to
> map to a different entry point.

excellent.

good work.

l.