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-rw-r--r--src/rv32.tex3
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/machine.tex b/src/machine.tex
index 6de2495..c3edd9f 100644
--- a/src/machine.tex
+++ b/src/machine.tex
@@ -2122,8 +2122,8 @@ that a simple return from the trap handler will execute code after the
WFI instruction.
\end{commentary}
-The WFI instruction is just a hint, and a legal implementation is to
-implement WFI as a NOP.
+The purpose of the WFI instruction is to provide a hint to the implementation,
+and so a legal implementation is to simply implement WFI as a NOP.
\begin{commentary}
If the implementation does not stall the hart on execution of the
diff --git a/src/rv32.tex b/src/rv32.tex
index 51c5c03..01accc1 100644
--- a/src/rv32.tex
+++ b/src/rv32.tex
@@ -1328,8 +1328,7 @@ remainder of the HINT space is reserved for custom HINTs: no standard HINTs
will ever be defined in this subspace.
\begin{commentary}
-No standard hints are presently defined (except the privileged WFI
-instruction which uses a separately reserved encoding). We anticipate
+No standard hints are presently defined. We anticipate
standard hints to eventually include memory-system spatial and
temporal locality hints, branch prediction hints, thread-scheduling
hints, security tags, and instrumentation flags for