| Zephyr support status on RISC-V processors |
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| Overview |
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| This page describes current state of Zephyr for RISC-V processors. |
| Currently, there's support for some boards, as well as Qemu support |
| and support for some FPGA implementations such as neorv32 and |
| litex_vexriscv. |
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| Zephyr support includes PMP, :ref:`user mode<usermode_api>`, several |
| ISA extensions as well as :ref:`semihosting<semihost_guide>`. |
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| User mode and PMP support |
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| When the platform has Physical Memory Protection (PMP) support, enabling |
| it on Zephyr allows user space support and stack protection to be |
| selected. |
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| ISA extensions |
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| It's possible to set in Zephyr which ISA extensions (RV32/64I(E)MAFD(G)QC) |
| are available on a given platform, by setting the appropriate ``CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_*`` |
| kconfig. Look at :file:`arch/riscv/Kconfig.isa` for more information. |
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| Note that Zephyr SDK toolchain support may not be defined for all |
| combinations. |
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| SMP support |
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| SMP is supported on RISC-V for both QEMU-virtualized and hardware-based |
| platforms. In order to test the SMP support, one can use |
| :zephyr:board:`qemu_riscv32` or :zephyr:board:`qemu_riscv64` for QEMU-based |
| platforms, or :zephyr:board:`beaglev_fire` or :zephyr:board:`mpfs_icicle` for |
| hardware-based platforms. |
