[Libre-soc-dev] insndb: further directions

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sunday, November 5, 2023, Dmitry Selyutin <ghostmansd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks, I've finally managed to dedicate some time to publishing all
> these issues to bugzilla:
>
> https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1198

hooray. i marked them as "Future"

> I've also linked issue 1140. Regardless of the exact fate of aliases,
> I'm pretty sure pure vanilla PPC aliases will never be dropped forever
> due to code compatibility. So we will have to support these anyway.

indeed. but remember i cannot say why but please do not spend
time on aliases until the next Power ISA PDF public release.

i just noted that discussion itself is so massive that it
will need a budget on its own to cover the full implications
and impact.

we *cannot* rush into this one, insndb too fundamental
to absolutely everything we do, now.

l.


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