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Working Draft of the RISC-V J Extension Specification

https://jira.riscv.org/browse/RVG-128

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Closed deepak0414 closed 1 year ago

deepak0414 commented 1 year ago

Current VBITS is defined as "VBITS: The bits within an address that affect which memory is addressed."

I think it would be more appropriate to define as

"VBITS: If virtual memory is enabled, bits of an address which are used to index into page tables"

martinmaas commented 1 year ago

Addressed in fd7220807e1405ba9b5de38d9d4ac26e73312128 (Section 2.1)