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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Tue, 10 May 2022 10:08:57 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: ARM Scalable Matrix Extension is ARMv9-A
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Hi Mark,

On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 5:35 PM Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 03:40:30PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > The help text for the config option to enable support for the ARM
> > Scalable Matrix Extension does not mention the specification baseline
> > for this extension.  Make it clear this is an extension for the ARMv9-A
> > architecture, so users know when it is safe to disable this option,
> > which is enabled by default.
>
> If this is important we should probably also do it for SVE, it was
> introduced along with v8.2 but that's not called out in Kconfig.

Makes sense.

I jumped on this one in particular, as I believe it's the first v9 extension.

> > Fixes: a1f4ccd25cc25625 ("arm64/sme: Provide Kconfig for SME")
>
> Fixes?

That we can discuss about ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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