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Clarify that only read-only accesses to the seed CSR are forbidden #1540

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@aswaterman aswaterman commented Jul 17, 2024

Write-only accesses are legal (though not useful).

See riscv-software-src/riscv-isa-sim#1728

The Zicsr spec already says that CSRs narrower than XLEN are zero-extended.
This is a property of the Zicsr extension, not a property of Zkr.
Write-only accesses are legal (though not useful).
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FYI @mjosaarinen

@aswaterman aswaterman merged commit 05175a7 into main Jul 23, 2024
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