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authorPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>2017-12-26 20:55:44 -0800
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>2018-01-29 10:22:26 -0800
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Skeleton documentation for the RISC-V port
During the upstreaming process it was suggested that I add a handful of
small documentation entries about the RISC-V port, which I've collected
here.

2018-01-29  Palmer Dabbelt  <palmer@sifive.com>

        * manual/math.texi: RISC-V supports _Float128 and _Float64x.
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@@ -41,13 +41,13 @@ Major new features:
   process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
 
 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
-  alpha, mips64, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements _Float128
-  interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.  These
-  are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
+  alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
+  _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
+  These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
   this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
 
 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
-  mips64, powerpc64le, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
+  mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
   implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
   18661-3:2015.  These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
   _Float128.
@@ -98,6 +98,14 @@ Major new features:
   to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
   See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
 
+* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added.  This port
+  requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
+  for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
+
+    - rv64imac lp64
+    - rv64imafdc lp64
+    - rv64imafdc lp64d
+
 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
 
 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the