[PATCH v2 0/2] efi: preserve NEON registers on UEFI services calls

Mark Salter msalter at redhat.com
Thu Jun 26 06:58:07 PDT 2014


On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 12:09 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> The current UEFI implementation for arm64 fails to preserve/restore the contents
> of the NEON register file,

Does the current implementation actually use NEON registers?
I know there are some at least, which build with -mgeneral-regs-only
to keep gcc from using NEON registers.

Not that that means we don't need this. Just curious.





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