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LekKit

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About LekKit

Eva, 21 y.o. Linux & RISC-V hobbyist. https://github.com/LekKit

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    Comment #35019975

    > I wish ARM64, RISC-V, and other modern ISAs had taken DEC Alpha AXP's idea of restricting all of the privileged instructions to the firmware This is already possible on RISC-V to…

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    Comment #35019397

    That's a cool achievement, but I imagine the single-switch decoder is a bit of a limiting design factor if this project grows (disabling/enabling instructions will introduce branch…

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    Comment #35019293

    See my nearby post on this thread, hope it'll explain stuff

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    Comment #35019282

    Basically there are few design choices where it's substantially different to QEMU. Performance-wise: - Instead of a static translate-and-run flow like in QEMU, RVVM has an interpre…

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    Comment #35019126

    This is exactly what happened. I never though much about the imagery, it was a 5-min commit to "make README look nicer", and I actually have asthma as well (Never been much around …

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    Comment #35019106

    I agree a lot, but RVVM implements an API to register new instructions at runtime, so I wanted to leave the core sources as much understandable and macro-free. Plus I don't see how…