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From: "Leif Lindholm" <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
To: "Chang, Abner (HPS SW/FW Technologist)" <abner.chang@hpe.com>
Cc: "devel@edk2.groups.io" <devel@edk2.groups.io>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 09/29] MdePkg/BaseIoLibIntrinsic: RISC-V I/O intrinsic functions.
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 10:13:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191002091317.GZ25504@bivouac.eciton.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DF4PR8401MB1195E109894B0684072A7826FF9C0@DF4PR8401MB1195.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 01:30:12AM +0000, Chang, Abner (HPS SW/FW Technologist) wrote:
> > There should be exactly one variant of IoLib.c. Well, these days we need a
> > separate one for ARM/AARCH64 under hw virtualization.
> > 
> > IoLibArm, IoLibEbc and IoLibRiscV have *exactly* the same requirements.
> > And now x86 uses NASM regardless of build platform, I think it would make
> > sense to move the contents of IoLibGcc and IoLibMsc into assembler.
> 
> That looks weird and doesn't make sense to use Arm code for RISC-V
> even the functionality is exactly the same to IoLibRiscV. I will
> still keep it as IoLibRiscV.c until there is a generic IoLib for
> different arch.

This is C code. It is no more weird to use "another architecture's"
code than it is to add another file doing exactly the same thing but
pretending it is "for" another architecture.

And one of those options does not pile up even more code duplication
in the tree.

But you are welcome to convince some other maintainer of the opposite.

/
    Leif

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-02  9:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 108+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-23  0:31 [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 00/29] RISC-V EDK2 Port on Abner Chang
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 01/29] RiscVPkg: RISC-V processor package Abner Chang
2019-09-26 22:26   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 02/29] RiscVPkg/Include: Add header files of RISC-V CPU package Abner Chang
2019-09-26 22:29   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 03/29] RiscVPkg/opensbi: EDK2 RISC-V OpenSBI support Abner Chang
2019-09-26 22:41   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 04/29] MdePkg: RISC-V RV64 binding in MdePkg Abner Chang
2019-09-26 22:44   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 05/29] MdePkg/Include: RISC-V definitions Abner Chang
2019-09-26 22:45   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 06/29] MdeModulePkg/CapsuleRuntimeDxe: Add RISCV64 arch Abner Chang
2019-09-26 22:46   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 07/29] MdePkg/BaseLib: BaseLib for RISC-V RV64 Processor Abner Chang
2019-09-26 22:56   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-10-14 16:47     ` Abner Chang
2019-10-14 18:23       ` Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 08/29] MdePkg/BaseCacheMaintenanceLib: RISC-V cache maintenance implementation Abner Chang
2019-10-01  8:44   ` [edk2-devel] " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-09-23  0:31 ` Abner Chang
2019-09-26 23:30   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 09/29] MdePkg/BaseIoLibIntrinsic: RISC-V I/O intrinsic functions Abner Chang
2019-09-26 23:39   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-10-01  8:49     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-10-01  9:07       ` Leif Lindholm
2019-10-02  1:30         ` Abner Chang
2019-10-02  9:13           ` Leif Lindholm [this message]
2019-10-02 16:14             ` Abner Chang
2019-10-02 16:27               ` Andrew Fish
2019-10-02 16:35                 ` Leif Lindholm
2019-10-03  0:52                   ` Abner Chang
2019-10-03  8:38                     ` Leif Lindholm
2019-10-03 11:34                       ` Abner Chang
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 10/29] MdePkg/BasePeCoff: Add RISC-V PE/Coff related code Abner Chang
2019-09-26 23:46   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-10-15  4:02     ` Abner Chang
2019-10-15 10:31       ` Leif Lindholm
2019-10-15 10:56         ` Abner Chang
     [not found]     ` <15CDB6324F411B37.30896@groups.io>
2019-10-15  4:26       ` Abner Chang
2019-10-15 10:41         ` Leif Lindholm
2019-10-15 10:59           ` Abner Chang
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 11/29] MdePkg/BaseCpuLib: RISC-V Base CPU library implementation Abner Chang
2019-09-26 23:47   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 12/29] MdePkg/BaseSynchronizationLib: RISC-V cache related code Abner Chang
2019-09-27  0:19   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 13/29] MdeModulePkg/Logo Abner Chang
2019-09-30 22:51   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 14/29] NetworkPkg Abner Chang
2019-09-30 22:51   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 15/29] RiscVPkg/Library: RISC-V CPU library Abner Chang
2019-09-30 18:31   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-10-15  2:32     ` Abner Chang
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 16/29] RiscVPkg/Library: Add RISC-V exception library Abner Chang
2019-09-30 19:15   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 17/29] RiscVPkg/Library: Add RISC-V timer library Abner Chang
2019-09-30 19:46   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 18/29] RiscVPkg/Library: Add EDK2 RISC-V OpenSBI library Abner Chang
2019-09-30 20:03   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-10-15  1:21     ` Abner Chang
2019-10-15  8:35       ` Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 19/29] RiscVPkg/Library: RISC-V platform level DxeIPL libraries Abner Chang
2019-09-30 20:15   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-09-30 20:44     ` Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 20/29] MdeModulePkg/DxeIplPeim : RISC-V platform level DxeIPL Abner Chang
2019-09-30 20:31   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 21/29] RiscVPkg/PeiServicesTablePointerLibOpenSbi: RISC-V PEI Service Table Pointer library Abner Chang
2019-09-30 20:54   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 22/29] RiscVPkg/RiscVPlatformTempMemoryInit: RISC-V Platform Temporary Memory library Abner Chang
2019-09-30 20:56   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 23/29] RiscVPkg/CpuDxe: Add RISC-V CPU DXE driver Abner Chang
2019-09-30 21:11   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 24/29] BaseTools: BaseTools changes for RISC-V platform Abner Chang
2019-09-26 22:09   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-10-15  6:18     ` Abner Chang
2019-10-15 10:56       ` Leif Lindholm
2019-10-15 11:13         ` Abner Chang
2019-10-16  5:06         ` Abner Chang
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 25/29] BaseTools/Scripts Abner Chang
2019-09-26 20:50   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-10-15  6:31     ` Abner Chang
2019-10-15 11:00       ` Leif Lindholm
2019-10-15 11:03         ` Abner Chang
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 26/29] RiscVPkg/SmbiosDxe: Generic SMBIOS DXE driver for RISC-V platforms Abner Chang
2019-09-30 22:39   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-10-14 11:27     ` Abner Chang
2019-10-14 11:56       ` Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 27/29] edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2: Add submodule Abner Chang
2019-09-26 22:24   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 28/29] edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2: Add ReadMe Abner Chang
2019-09-30 22:48   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2019-09-23  0:31 ` [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 29/29] edk2-staging: Update Maintainers.txt Abner Chang
2019-09-30 22:50   ` [edk2-devel] " Leif Lindholm
     [not found] ` <15C6EB9824DD2A88.29693@groups.io>
2019-09-24  1:52   ` [edk2-devel] [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 04/29] MdePkg: RISC-V RV64 binding in MdePkg Abner Chang
     [not found] ` <15C6EB994C26E5C4.2053@groups.io>
2019-09-24  1:52   ` [edk2-devel] [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 05/29] MdePkg/Include: RISC-V definitions Abner Chang
     [not found] ` <15C6EB9950232DB5.29693@groups.io>
2019-09-24  1:53   ` [edk2-devel] [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 07/29] MdePkg/BaseLib: BaseLib for RISC-V RV64 Processor Abner Chang
     [not found] ` <15C6EB9A049FF8A4.24160@groups.io>
2019-09-24  1:54   ` [edk2-devel] [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 09/29] MdePkg/BaseIoLibIntrinsic: RISC-V I/O intrinsic functions Abner Chang
     [not found] ` <15C6EB9B3E887BEB.29693@groups.io>
2019-09-24  1:55   ` [edk2-devel] [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 13/29] MdeModulePkg/Logo Abner Chang
     [not found] ` <15C6EB9A40C408A0.24160@groups.io>
2019-09-24  1:56   ` [edk2-devel] [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 10/29] MdePkg/BasePeCoff: Add RISC-V PE/Coff related code Abner Chang
     [not found] ` <15C6EB9B872A5B83.24160@groups.io>
2019-09-24  1:57   ` [edk2-devel] [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 14/29] NetworkPkg Abner Chang
     [not found] ` <15C6EB99CBC780B5.2053@groups.io>
2019-09-24  1:57   ` [edk2-devel] [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 08/29] MdePkg/BaseCacheMaintenanceLib: RISC-V cache maintenance implementation Abner Chang
     [not found] ` <15C6EB9A9BD83853.2053@groups.io>
2019-09-24  1:58   ` [edk2-devel] [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 11/29] MdePkg/BaseCpuLib: RISC-V Base CPU library implementation Abner Chang
     [not found] ` <15C6EB9AEB7BB057.24160@groups.io>
2019-09-24  1:58   ` [edk2-devel] [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 12/29] MdePkg/BaseSynchronizationLib: RISC-V cache related code Abner Chang
     [not found] ` <15C6EB99608359A3.24160@groups.io>
2019-09-24  1:59   ` [edk2-devel] [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 08/29] MdePkg/BaseCacheMaintenanceLib: RISC-V cache maintenance implementation Abner Chang
     [not found] ` <15C6EB9D6C0EC3B0.29693@groups.io>
2019-09-24  2:00   ` [edk2-devel] [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 20/29] MdeModulePkg/DxeIplPeim : RISC-V platform level DxeIPL Abner Chang
     [not found] ` <15C6EB98AD6CCCEB.24160@groups.io>
2019-09-24  2:01   ` [edk2-devel] [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 06/29] MdeModulePkg/CapsuleRuntimeDxe: Add RISCV64 arch Abner Chang
     [not found] ` <15C6EB9F04387439.29693@groups.io>
2019-09-24  2:02   ` [edk2-devel] [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 25/29] BaseTools/Scripts Abner Chang
2019-09-26 22:22 ` [edk2-devel] [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v2 00/29] RISC-V EDK2 Port on Leif Lindholm
2019-10-15  6:39   ` Abner Chang

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