On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 01:46:00PM -0300, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This series renames the following internal extensions flags:
>
> ext_ifencei, ext_icsr, ext_icbom, ext_icboz
>
> To add a leading 'z':
>
> ext_zifencei, ext_zicsr, ext_zicbom, ext_zicboz
>
> This was proposed by Andrew Jones. The motivation, in his own words:
>
> "I'd prefer we name the booleans with their 'z' to improve grepping.
> When one wants to search for uses of zifencei, I imagine they're more
> likely to do 'grep -i zifencei' than 'grep -i ifencei', particularly
> because the 's' is maintained for S extensions. "
>
>
> Aside from that, these are the only 4 Z-extension flags that don't use a
> leading 'z' in their name, so there's also the benefit of making
> everything equal.
>
For the series,
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Thanks,
drew