Disable VSX instruction
authorPaulo Flabiano Smorigo <pfsmorigo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 25 Sep 2014 22:33:39 +0000 (19:33 -0300)
committerJulian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
Sun, 2 Nov 2025 11:08:11 +0000 (12:08 +0100)
commitb268ee2bf91ebc0d3b44e007ac0ab25aa19b5e0d
tree6db9b142032e1d954becb9bf3cc6a0d761d1100c
parentfb82a94ebc9f95e229aa9190bedde211bf6f5896
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