[PATCH] aarch64: disable feature b16b16

[Richard Earnshaw (lists)]

On 18/07/2024 07:07, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 12.07.2024 10:02, yury.khrustalev@arm.com wrote:
>> From: Matthieu Longo <Matthieu.Longo@arm.com>
>>
>> Feature b16b16 is currently incomplete and requires re-work.
> 
> Nevertheless the partial implementation was available in a release. The
> change here therefore will break, in 2.43, code where the working parts
> of the feature were already put in use.
> 
> Jan

Fortunately, there's no silicon available yet with this feature, so I'd be very surprised if anybody is affected by it in practice.  Hopefully any distro using 2.42 as a LTS release will have picked up the post-release patches from the branch and thus disabled the option.

R.