Re: AMU extension v1 support for cortex A76, A77, A78 CPUs

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On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 08:56:31AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 2020-11-20 04:30, Neeraj Upadhyay wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > For ARM cortex A76, A77, A78 cores (which as per TRM, support AMU)
> > AA64PFR0[47:44] field is not set, and AMU does not get enabled for
> > them.
> > Can you please provide support for these CPUs in cpufeature.c?
>
> If that was the case, that'd be an erratum, and it would need to be
> documented as such. It could also be that this is an optional feature
> for these cores (though the TRM doesn't suggest that).
>
> Can someone at ARM confirm what is the expected behaviour of these CPUs?

IIRC discussion with Ionela long back, we intentionally decided not to
support IMPDEF(pre 8.4 non-architected so called AMUs) on the CPUs listed
in $subject.

--
Regards,
Sudeep



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