From: lkcl <lkcl@web>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2022 18:35:07 +0000 (+0100)
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X-Git-Tag: opf_rfc_ls005_v1~2423
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5cd0c180b00d4d16d121f9ed5ee922697d54a955;p=libreriscv.git

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diff --git a/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn b/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn
index c4f507c81..bacaf933c 100644
--- a/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn
+++ b/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn
@@ -248,3 +248,13 @@ Engine.  The only reason that the team did not take this forward
 into a commercial product
 was because they could not work out how to cleanly do OoO
 multi-issue at the time.
+
+In its simplest form, then, this "prefixing" idea is a matter
+of:
+
+* Defining the format of the prefix
+* Adding a `setvl` instruction
+* Adding SPRs and working out how to do context-switches
+* Writing an awful lot of Specification Documentation
+  (4 years and counting)
+