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Linux 6.16 Enables Support For Arm Scalable Matrix Extension "SME"
The Linux kernel had not enabled support for Arm Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) due to bugs, but with the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel those issues have been resolved and so SME can now be enabled for the rare SoCs having said hardware support.
The Linux kernel had not enabled support for Arm Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) due to bugs, but with the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel those issues have been resolved and so SME can now be enabled for the rare SoCs having said hardware support. Various problems within the Linux kernel's FPSIMD / SVE / SME code had led to the Scalable Matrix Extensions support on Arm processors being disabled and hidden behind the "BROKEN" Linux kernel Kconfig gate. But with Linux 6.16 those problems appear all ironed out particularly for the context-switching, signal handling and ptrace code.
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