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virtualization? how?

Open andreiw opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

The virtualization section talks about virtualizing or emulating access to mconfigptr, but there is no concept of M-mode virtualization in the RV H extension. In a virtualized system, the guest only consists of S- and U-mode components (S mode running firmware and then OS). In a virtualized system, SBI is implemented by the hypervisor and no M-mode registers are modelled.

Thus I would either delete this section entirely or flatly state that UD does not concern with virtualization, e.g. a hypervisor would model the guest environment based on its view of the host envo, which it bases on DT/ACPI, not on UD data which it also cannot see.

andreiw avatar Oct 11 '24 20:10 andreiw