[PATCH 0/6] arm64: Disabling SVE/SME from the command-line

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 04:14:06PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:

> The main victim here is SVE, because it seems that people have all
> sort of broken firmware out there, and that a distribution kernel
> cannot boot on that. And since we have a dependency between SVE and
> SME, disabling the former also disables the latter.

Oh dear, I've not seen any reports of this.  I'm guessing it's TF-A just
not enabling the requisite traps, coupled with people using prebuilt
kernels that turned off SVE when doing validation?
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