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SubjectRe: [PATCH 7/8] arm64: cpufeature: Relax checks for AArch32 support at EL[0-2]
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On 04/14/2020 10:31 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> We don't need to be quite as strict about mismatched AArch32 support,
> which is good because the friendly hardware folks have been busy
> mismatching this to their hearts' content.
>
> * We don't care about EL2 or EL3 (there are silly comments concerning
> the latter, so remove those)
>
> * EL1 support is gated by the ARM64_HAS_32BIT_EL1 capability and handled
> gracefully when a mismatch occurs
>
> * EL1 support is gated by the ARM64_HAS_32BIT_EL0 capability and handled

s/EL1/EL0

> gracefully when a mismatch occurs
>
> Relax the AArch32 checks to FTR_NONSTRICT.

Agreed. We should do something similar for the features exposed by the
ELF_HWCAP, of course in a separate series.

>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>

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