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authorPrashanth Mundkur <prashanth.mundkur@gmail.com>2019-01-25 20:13:48 -0800
committerPrashanth Mundkur <prashanth.mundkur@gmail.com>2019-01-25 20:13:48 -0800
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Mention mstatus.SD handling in the Extending guide.
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@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ definitions can be added in a separate file. If these registers have
properties of control-and-status registers (CSRs), or depend on
privilege level (such as hypervisor-mode registers), additional access
control checks would need to be provided as is done for the standard
-CSRs in `riscv_sys.sail`.
+CSRs in `riscv_sys.sail`. In addition, the handling of updates to
+`mstatus.XS` and `mstatus.SD` may need to be updated in
+`riscv_sys.sail` to handle any extended register state.
Adding a new privilege level or functionality restricted by privilege
level will normally be accompanied by defining new exception causes