RISC-V initial take

By: Konrad Schwarz (no.spam.delete@this.no.spam), December 21, 2018 2:17 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
dmcq (dmcq.delete@this.fano.co.uk) on December 20, 2018 7:41 am wrote:
> Konrad Schwarz (no.spam.delete@this.no.spam) on December 20, 2018 4:30 am wrote:

> > * no cache management instructions, no cache architecture (caches are not self-describing)
> > * no TLB management instructions
> > * very limited fence instructions, unclear semantics
> > * memory attributes are not stored in the paging tables, but in separate registers
> > * no guidance on mapping the simple atomic memory operations to the system bus
> > * no system bus definition (obviously related to the above)
> >
> > SiFive have defined a bus known as TileLink, but this has nowhere
> > near the maturity of AXI/ACE, or of the PPC 60x bus definition
>
> I'd expect most users to use AMBA or CoreConnect or something like that unless they have very
> special requirements.

The raison d'être for RISC-V is lower-cost ASICs/SoCs. By not specifying a system bus/interconnect, interoperability is compromised and the market is needlessly fragmented (i.e., cores with AMBA and with TileLink exist).

The design of the interconnect has ramifications on the instruction set -- e.g., both ARM and IBM require the use of cache management/synchronization instructions as the system level interconnect is not coherent. RISC-V currently does not address this at all; any solutions are proprietary and may need to be rewritten if the core is replaced in a next gen design.

The atomic memory operations (AMO) are not supported by AMBA (in fairness, load locked/store conditional is also not supported on e.g. APB), even though they would be most useful there to enable/disable per device interupts, modify general-purpose outputs, etc. This means the AMO are mostly an evolutionary dead end if AMBA is going to be the solution.

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