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Remove the three specialised bundles (Zvvhpc, Zvvaimlfp, Zvvaimlint)
from the spec. These were defined solely as named groupings of the
existing computational extensions for HPC, AI/ML floating-point, and
AI/ML integer workloads respectively, and added no new instructions
or arithmetic semantics.
Bundle composition is properly the concern of profiles, not of an
unprivileged ISA extension specification:
- Profiles can mandate concrete sets of extensions per
application domain with finer granularity than three coarse
bundles (and can reflect the fact that real platforms typically
span multiple domains).
- The three bundles overlapped (the closing NOTE explicitly stated
they are not mutually exclusive), so they did not partition
the implementation space and were not load-bearing for
interoperability.
- Open questions raised in TG review -- whether Zvvhpc should
forbid psm=1, whether Zvvaimlfp should require narrow accumulators,
whether AI/ML int and FP belong in one combined bundle -- are
profile-level decisions that the spec should not pre-empt.
The 98-line section is removed in its entirety. No cross-references
elsewhere in the spec point into it; no other prose change is
required.
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Remove the three specialised bundles (Zvvhpc, Zvvaimlfp, Zvvaimlint) from the spec. These were defined solely as named groupings of the existing computational extensions for HPC, AI/ML floating-point, and AI/ML integer workloads respectively, and added no new instructions or arithmetic semantics.
Bundle composition is properly the concern of profiles, not of an unprivileged ISA extension specification:
The 98-line section is removed in its entirety. No cross-references elsewhere in the spec point into it; no other prose change is required.