This page provides technical details about the base testing requirements to achieve the "RISC-V Compatible™" trademark and logo for ISA Profiles and Extensions. Successful completion and passing of the Architectural Compatibility Test (ACT) suite is the foundation work in the process of gaining permission to use the “RISC-V Compatible” Trademark for Profiles and Extensions. See the RISC-V Branding Guidelines & Materials webpage for more details and additional requirements.
While this process is evolving and the tools continuously improve, the set of skills needed to complete this work is quite broad. Common activities include installing open source packages, clone GitHub repositories, modifying YAML files, executing scripts, reading HTML, understanding ISA instructions, asking questions on mailing lists, creating GitHub PRs, and reading many documents.
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Background Documents
The following documents provide foundational information for key parts of this process:
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A RISC-V Technical Session titled "Using Template Repo to setup/run RISC-V Arch Test Suite under RHEL/Ubuntu" was recorded in April 2023. It provides information about a member-provided repo (link) that supplements setup of the ACT environment with some extra scripts and files. Details, including the presentation and recording links are available here.
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