[PATCH v1 0/3] arm64: Boot requirements clarifications

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Apr 30 18:55:39 BST 2021


On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 16:19:52 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> This series makes explicit our booting requirements in a number of
> areas, mainly the initialisation of optional floating point features.
> While no issues have been encountered it seems better to be explict,
> particularly given that new extensions frequently require setup from
> higher exception levels to be functional so our list of explicit
> requirement is tending to become more and more exhaustive creating some
> expecation that requirements will be stated clearly.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/core), thanks!

[1/3] arm64: Relax booting requirements for configuration of traps
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/ee61f36d3e46
[2/3] arm64: Explicitly require that FPSIMD instructions do not trap
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/b30dbf4d9362
[3/3] arm64: Explicitly document boot requirements for SVE
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/ff1c42cdfbcf

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Catalin




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