[PATCH v4 17/18] Documentation for the RISC-V 32-bit port

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Wed, 12 Aug 2020, Alistair Francis wrote:

> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 2937adc3f3..c039a7aede 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -9,7 +9,14 @@ Version 2.33
>  
>  Major new features:
>  
> -  [Add new features here]
> +* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
> +  32-bit hardware.  This requires at least Linux 5.4 and is supported for
> +  the following ISA and ABI pairs:
> +    - rv32imac ilp32
> +    - rv32imafdc ilp32
> +    - rv32imafdc ilp32d
> +  The 32-bit RISC-V port requires the Linux kernel 5.4+, GCC 7.1+ and
> +  binutils 2.28+.

 This repeats the Linux version, and I think the use of "+" in version 
numbers qualifies as slang we would better avoid in such a user-visible 
document (well, there's no previous such use here ever anyway).  We also 
seem to avoid the use of "kernel" in references to Linux versions here.

 How about:

* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
  32-bit hardware.  This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:

    - rv32imac ilp32
    - rv32imafdc ilp32
    - rv32imafdc ilp32d

  The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils 
  2.28.

then?

  Maciej