On Fri, May 08, 2026 at 06:12:01PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2026 at 05:00:53PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Update the definition of SMIDR_EL1 in the sysreg definition to reflect the
> > information in DD0601 2025-06. This includes somewhat more generic ways of
> > describing the sharing of SMCUs, more information on supported priorities
> > and provides additional resolution for describing affinity groups.

> FWIW, these are all in ARM DDI 0487 M.b:

>   https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0487/mb/

> Is anything later in the series going to depend on these fields, or
> would everything behave correctly with the existing RES0 field
> definitions?

We're exposing the affinity fields so there's a build time issue.

> > +Field      55:52   HIP

> Reading the ARM ARM, HIP is arguably a backwards-incompatible change.

Yes, I belive people are aware.

> Do we expect to expose that to VMs, or just hide priorities entirely? I
> suspect we probably want to require that the guest sees
> SMIDR_EL1.SMPS==0, and not care about any of that.

Currently we're not exposing priority support to guests so we don't need
to worry about it yet.

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