volkadav 7 hours ago

"Zabha, Svvptc, and Ziccrse"

Man, I'm sure those are important changes that mean a great deal to someone, but to my naive eyes it looks like someone's cat ran over their keyboard. :)

In case anyone else was curious:

  * Zabha has to do with atomic memory operations.
  * Svvptc has something to do with memory management optimizations.
  * Ziccrse is something else related to memory.
  • yencabulator 4 hours ago

    RISC-V extensions names have prefixes, S for supervisor mode, Z for unprivileged extension, and so on. https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/08/27/risc-v-bases-and-ext...

    Zabha: Zacas & A extensions Byte and Halfword Atomic memory operations (where A refers to standard extension for atomic operations)

    Zacas: Z Atomic Compare-And-Swap

    and so on. You can ridicule them, but then you should also ridicule the x86 world for names like MPSADBW, PCMPESTRM or VFMADD132PD.

  • webdevver 7 hours ago

    prebuilt binaries available for

    -march=rv64imafdcbjkl_zicbo_zicbv_zirgjlak_zifjkka1p1_zignjkel1p2_zjkdlw_siajiogreo

    unfortunately my soc has zignjkel1p1, so have to rebuild universe

  • WesolyKubeczek 7 hours ago

    No way these are not names of supporting characters in a 1950s sci-fi novel or movie.

  • dboreham 7 hours ago

    On the plus side, those names are no longer available to pharma companies.

7e 6 hours ago

None of this is newsworthy.