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Commit 5043694e authored by Dave Martin's avatar Dave Martin Committed by Will Deacon
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arm64/sve: Document firmware support requirements in Kconfig



Use of SVE by EL2 and below requires explicit support in the
firmware.  There is no means to hide the presence of SVE from EL2,
so a kernel configured with CONFIG_ARM64_SVE=y will typically not
work correctly on SVE capable hardware unless the firmware does
include the appropriate support.

This is not expected to pose a problem in the wild, since platform
integrators are responsible for ensuring that they ship up-to-date
firmware to support their hardware.  However, developers may hit
the issue when using mismatched compoments.

In order to draw attention to the issue and how to solve it, this
patch adds some Kconfig text giving a brief explanation and details
of compatible firmware versions.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
parent af4a81b9
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