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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml index 9d3fe6aada2b9..b261a3015f84f 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml @@ -10,6 +10,18 @@ maintainers: - Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> - Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com> +description: | + This document uses some terminology common to the RISC-V community + that is not widely used, the definitions of which are listed here: + + hart: A hardware execution context, which contains all the state + mandated by the RISC-V ISA: a PC and some registers. This + terminology is designed to disambiguate software's view of execution + contexts from any particular microarchitectural implementation + strategy. For example, an Intel laptop containing one socket with + two cores, each of which has two hyperthreads, could be described as + having four harts. + properties: compatible: items: |