Disable VSX instruction
authorPaulo Flabiano Smorigo <pfsmorigo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 25 Sep 2014 22:33:39 +0000 (19:33 -0300)
committerFelix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>
Thu, 3 Jul 2025 16:35:51 +0000 (18:35 +0200)
commit9eaf5db5f8d701604168b213d70537cb9029a7bc
tree2a787a3f69af49f71b338c7c373f6be2ce461604
parent939d60d4853849a954c94c10f8d4fc8e6109503e
Disable VSX instruction

VSX bit is enabled by default for Power7 and Power8 CPU models,
so we need to disable them in order to avoid instruction exceptions.
Kernel will activate it when necessary.

* grub-core/kern/powerpc/ieee1275/startup.S: Disable VSX.

Also-By: Adhemerval Zanella <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Also-By: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Origin: other, https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2014-09/msg00078.html
Last-Update: 2015-01-27

Patch-Name: ppc64el-disable-vsx.patch

Gbp-Pq: Name ppc64el-disable-vsx.patch
grub-core/kern/powerpc/ieee1275/startup.S