[PATCH v1 00/18] arm64/nmi: Support for FEAT_NMI

[Zenghui Yu]

Hi Mark,

On 2022/11/9 23:35, Mark Brown wrote:
> For SME you should start seeing at least preparatory bits very soon
> after the SME2 support lands, it's pretty much at the top of my list but
> it didn't seem great to have yet another large, interdependent series in
> flight at once so.  I had initially been hoping to get the KVM support
> on the list in the gap between SME being merged and SME2 being public
> but what happened instead is that it took so long to get review of SME
> (with all the new ABI going on it's not 100% surprising it was slow but
> it was much slower than I expected) that it ran into the SME2 release.
> SME2 is only adding a single register of architectural state plus
> instructions so I'm hoping it will go a bit quicker but OTOH we're
> coming up to Christmas.  This backlog is the main reason I'm reluctant
> to do any non-essential cleanups with the FP stuff at the minute - it
> just increases the number of things that could cause conflicts or
> dependency issues and those are likely to loose a release cycle.

Out of curiosity, is there any public branch you can share (assuming
that the KVM side prototype of SME support is under development) or are
there already some patches on the list that I hadn't noticed? Having
asked that, I'm pretty happy to be Cc-ed on that once it gets ready so
that I can start testing things on the emulator (or on real HW, if
possible) and participate in the review.

Thanks,
Zenghui