From: lkcl <lkcl@web>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:27:05 +0000 (+0000)
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X-Git-Tag: convert-csv-opcode-to-binary~302
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5898a82980741e45a1cb1133fc586212d081ef77;p=libreriscv.git

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diff --git a/openpower/sv/sprs.mdwn b/openpower/sv/sprs.mdwn
index 5f6ec1354..5ef833c11 100644
--- a/openpower/sv/sprs.mdwn
+++ b/openpower/sv/sprs.mdwn
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ There are five SPRs, available in any privilege level:
 * STATE (containing copies of MVL, VL and SUBVL as well as context information)
 * SVSRR0 which is used for exceptions and traps to store SVSTATE.
 
+MVL, VL and SUBVL are only provided for convenience: normally `setvl` would be used to obtain a copy of VL, for example.
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 For Privilege Levels (trap handling) there are the following SPRs,
 where x may be u, s or h for User, Supervisor or Hypervisor
 Modes respectively: