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>
---
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