Krste Asanovic

I use execution context in the industry-standard way to refer to the state of a computation (as used in the phrase "context switching"). An execution environment enables the state of...

"context" is a generic term. When a unix-style OS switches a physical core from one user process to another, the VM page table pointer is switched to present a completely...

The majority of the benefit of this instruction comes from just a few of the values - the others were filled as having some demonstrated utility and being easy to...

The current definition allows multibit fields to be modified atomically , and keeps the same immediate datapath for RW and RS/RC operations. They also support encoding of read-only CSR instructions....

Zvaamo should imply Zaamo rather than entire A, which also includes Zalrsc.

Zvamo is removed from the initial standard vector extensions. These will be added at a later date as a standard extension but need new instruction encodings.

Yes, we should support CLIC mode in spike.

Hypervisor support is not included in current spec, will be added as a possible future extension.

Reopening to tag as post v1.0 issue.

Handling the separate cliccfg piece of this issue in #293. The possible new cliccfg format is being handled in issue #226.