[v5,16/17] Documentation for the RISC-V 32-bit port

Message ID 1245d7a74028cda9c8235403e5e522c5049d5232.1597851293.git.alistair.francis@wdc.com
State Committed
Headers
Series glibc port for 32-bit RISC-V (RV32) |

Commit Message

Alistair Francis Aug. 19, 2020, 3:39 p.m. UTC
  There is already RISC-V 64-bit port information in the documentation.
Let's add some documentation entries for the RISC-V 32-bit as well.
---
 NEWS   | 11 ++++++++++-
 README |  1 +
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
  

Comments

Maciej W. Rozycki Aug. 21, 2020, 11:59 a.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, 19 Aug 2020, Alistair Francis via Libc-alpha wrote:

> There is already RISC-V 64-bit port information in the documentation.
> Let's add some documentation entries for the RISC-V 32-bit as well.

 LGTM.

Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@wdc.com>

  Maciej
  

Patch

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2937adc3f3..06e43e0453 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -9,7 +9,16 @@  Version 2.33
 
 Major new features:
 
-  [Add new features here]
+
+* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
+  32-bit hardware.  This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
+
+    - rv32imac ilp32
+    - rv32imafdc ilp32
+    - rv32imafdc ilp32d
+
+  The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
+  2.28.
 
 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
 
diff --git a/README b/README
index 903f07e484..d0f0edb393 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@  The GNU C Library supports these configurations for using Linux kernels:
 	powerpc64*-*-linux-gnu	Big-endian and little-endian.
 	s390-*-linux-gnu
 	s390x-*-linux-gnu
+	riscv32-*-linux-gnu
 	riscv64-*-linux-gnu
 	sh[34]-*-linux-gnu
 	sparc*-*-linux-gnu