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OpCode and Consistency Review page
What's next: Respond to OpCode and Consistency Review comments, once available, and achieve consensus on any changes
- Some discussion already in Github issue #75 around suggestions for improving the encodings.

Architecture Tests

Test plan for the scalar-crypto specific instructions is available.
No actual tests suitable for use currently available. An old experimental set need removing from the riscv-crypto repository, as these no longer work with the latest toolchain or architectural test framework.
What's next:
- Imperas have a complete set of tests, written to the existing test plan, for the scalar crypto instructions and the bitmanip instructions we borrow.
  - These tests will be contributed upstream to the riscv-arch-test repository imminently, with many thanks to Imperas.
  - They form a base we can use to develop prototype implementations / Spike / SAIL / QEMU very easily and quickly.
- IIT Madras are also looking at writing the scalar crypto tests for integration into the official architectural tests repo as well.
  - Meeting on Wednesday 24th Feb'21 to discuss this.
  - Likely path is that they re-implement the tests as part of the blessed coverage and test generation tooling.
  - We then switch over to using the IIT tests when they are finished, since they will be easier to maintain/extend going forward than the Imperas tests.

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