[PATCH 0/3] arm64/sme: Fixes for SME only support

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Thu Jan 5 07:29:49 PST 2023


On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 03:22:28PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 05:12:04PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > There is no architectural requirement for systems implementing SME to
> > also implement SVE, though it is expected to be an unusual configuration.
> 
> How unusual? If people aren't practically going to build this, I think
> we'd be better off keeping the code simple and not supporting SME unless
> SVE is also present.

(I'll queue these three anyway, as they're all simple, so the above is more
 of a question to you as this feels like we're making a rod for our own back
 and we'll continue to miss the extra condition).

Will



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