Disable VSX instruction
authorPaulo Flabiano Smorigo <pfsmorigo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 25 Sep 2014 22:33:39 +0000 (19:33 -0300)
committerPeter Michael Green <plugwash@raspbian.org>
Sun, 28 Jul 2024 22:42:11 +0000 (22:42 +0000)
commit6940f33e676b8b07b1b187b0a8347f136baa108c
treecffd40db041a1f78309523d04047d1d1aad439ab
parent8422c33f5e74c1b24eb6d0a0a4e52a60708fd6c8
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