On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 07:38:42PM +0100, Dave P Martin wrote:
> This patch enables detection of hardware SVE support via the
> cpufeatures framework, and reports its presence to the kernel and
> userspace via the new ARM64_SVE cpucap and HWCAP_SVE hwcap
> respectively.
> 
> Userspace can also detect SVE using ID_AA64PFR0_EL1, using the
> cpufeatures MRS emulation.
> 
> When running on hardware that supports SVE, this enables runtime
> kernel support for SVE, and allows user tasks to execute SVE
> instructions and make of the of the SVE-specific user/kernel
> interface extensions implemented by this series.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.mar...@arm.com>
> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poul...@arm.com>

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com>
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