Disable VSX instruction
authorPaulo Flabiano Smorigo <pfsmorigo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 25 Sep 2014 22:33:39 +0000 (19:33 -0300)
committerMiao Wang <shankerwangmiao@gmail.com>
Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:50:20 +0000 (13:50 +0000)
commit6a0264f435b577874e00779007a717f6283601b1
tree25a9c7d99b6ec9374483212dcdc329802f14e5a0
parent570a979071be6a57b9bcf254b0927758e747a5e4
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