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>
Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:05:20 +0000 (17:05 +0200)
commitb777b316775821cb48ceec36211c17df7a6c5533
tree6d6722269e59c50c9e03b57f05e740d435d5bb76
parent9f9e5e91f680f495bd4be3949dd9769979c20b69
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