[PATCH 1/2] spec/build/riscv: Default all BSPs to medany cmodel

[Sebastian Huber]

Hello Hesham,

On 18/12/2022 15:27, heshamelmatary at gmail.com wrote:
> From: Hesham Almatary<hesham.almatary at cl.cam.ac.uk>
> 
> Currently generic RISC-V BSPs (riscv/riscv) that start with rv* and not
> rv*_medany will start at 0x70000000. This adds high maintenance overhead
> and deviates from almost all other RISC-V-based OSes and baremetal programs
> that start at 0x80000000. Further, testing now has to account for an extra
> parameter (medany or not) that doubles the number of BSPs need to be
> tested.
> 
> This commit defaults all BSPs to use medany code model to allow starting
> all BSPs at 0x80000000. BSPs that require different code models and/or
> start addresses are custom and need to add their own entries.
> 
> Updates #4775

why do we need the medany variants for RV32? I thought medlow can access 
addresses in the range -2GiB to +2GiB which is the complete 32-bit 
address space?

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