Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/17] RISC-V: add vfp field in CPURISCVState

[Richard Henderson]

On 9/11/19 10:51 AM, Chih-Min Chao wrote:
> Could  the VLEN be configurable in cpu initialization but not fixed in
> compilation phase ?
> Take the integer element as example  and the difference should be the
> stride of vfp.vreg[x] isn't continuous

Do you really want an unbounded amount of vector register storage?

>     uint8_t *mem = malloc(size)
>     for (int idx = 0; idx < 32; ++idx) {
>         vfp.vreg[idx].u64 = (void *)&mem[idx * elem];
>         vfp.vreg[idx].u32 = (void *)&mem[idx * elem];
>         vfp.vreg[idx].u16 = (void *)&mem[idx * elem];
>    }

This isn't adjusting the stride of the elements.  And in any case this would
have to be re-adjusted for every vsetvl.


r~