the words in this document : https://wiki.riscv.org/plugins/servlet/mobile?contentId=13098230#content/view/13098230
make it very clear when changes are allowed or not and likely or not. if you think the verbiage is somehow ambiguous please help us make it better. Mark -------- sent from a mobile device. please forgive any typos. > On Sep 27, 2021, at 8:50 AM, Palmer Dabbelt <pal...@dabbelt.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:20:17 PDT (-0700), ati...@atishpatra.org wrote: >> Hi All, >> Please find the below email from Stephano about the freeze announcement for >> various RISC-V specifications that will be part of privilege specification >> v1.12. >> All the review discussions are happening in the isa-dev mailing list. The >> review period will be open for 45 days ending Sunday October 31, 2021. >> >> I just want to highlight the fact that the *H*, *V, SvPBMT, CMO extensions >> are frozen now. *This will help us merge some patches that have been >> present in the mailing list for a while. >> >> Here are the ratification policy and extension life cycle documents present >> in the public. If you have any questions regarding this, please check with >> Mark/Stephano (cc'd). >> >> Ratification policy: >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-UlaSGqk59_myeuPMrV9gyuaIgnmFzGh5Gfy_tpViwM/edit >> >> Extension life cycle: >> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nQ5uFb39KA6gvUi5SReWfIQSiRN7hp6z7ZPfctE4mKk/edit#slide=id.p1 > > I'm still buried after Plumbers, but one of the bits on my TODO list was to > look throught the new definitions for frozen and stable. Nothing in this > extension life cycle talks about the point at which compatibility will be > maintained, which was really the central point behind frozen before. > > Are there more concrete definitions somewhere?
