From 04a4f32179c547128e81b35657a1bf6dc6c6ae3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>

Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:11:00 -0400

Subject: [PATCH 104/118] aarch64: documentation update

TODO

Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <surajjs@amazon.com>

Signed-off-by: Pete Swain <swine@google.com>

Signed-off-by: Mihails Strasuns <mstrasun@amazon.com>

Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>

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 README.md                           |  2 +-

 doc/arm64-upstream-prerequisites.md | 11 +++++++++++

 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

 create mode 100644 doc/arm64-upstream-prerequisites.md

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md

index 6cade1c..5054ccd 100644

--- a/README.md

+++ b/README.md

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Supported Architectures

 - [x] x86-64

 - [x] ppc64le

-- [ ] arm64

+- [x] arm64

 - [x] s390 [upstream prerequisites](doc/s390-upstream-prerequisites.md)

 Installation

diff --git a/doc/arm64-upstream-prerequisites.md b/doc/arm64-upstream-prerequisites.md

new file mode 100644

index 0000000..3c49af8

--- /dev/null

+++ b/doc/arm64-upstream-prerequisites.md

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@

+### arm64 backporting

+

+**Prerequisite kernel patches:**

+**v5.19:**

+- [Madhavan Venkataraman's [RFC PATCH v2 00/20] arm64: livepatch: Use ORC for dynamic frame pointer validation](https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20220524001637.1707472-1-madvenka@linux.microsoft.com/)

+- also tested against madvenka's earlier pre-objtool series up to v15

+

+**v5.15 and v5.10:**

+- under development, both known to work with backports of madvenka's v15,

+  but the objtool-using version above is likely to be the approach that

+  finally merges into upstream kernel

-- 

2.48.1