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authorDave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>2019-04-18 18:41:38 +0100
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2019-04-23 18:02:00 +0100
commit06a916feca2b262ab0c1a2aeb68882f4b1108a07 (patch)
tree7687db5cfb7163edb21e8f6d13bcea9c5c8488e8 /arch/arm64/Kconfig
parentdd523791c939cfe642557cb2fac754ac0fed80fe (diff)
downloadlinux-06a916feca2b262ab0c1a2aeb68882f4b1108a07.tar.bz2
arm64: Expose SVE2 features for userspace
This patch provides support for reporting the presence of SVE2 and its optional features to userspace. This will also enable visibility of SVE2 for guests, when KVM support for SVE-enabled guests is available. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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@@ -1372,6 +1372,9 @@ config ARM64_SVE
To enable use of this extension on CPUs that implement it, say Y.
+ On CPUs that support the SVE2 extensions, this option will enable
+ those too.
+
Note that for architectural reasons, firmware _must_ implement SVE
support when running on SVE capable hardware. The required support
is present in: