Comment 0 for bug 507416

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Dave Martin (dave-martin-arm) wrote :

Observed for example running ffplay to decode H.264 video on Babbage 2.0

This needs to be worked around by a separate kernel image for the affected platforms, or the ability to enable or disable CONFIG_NEON at boot.

Note that the principal problem here is the reporting of neon in the auxv AT_HWCAP word and /proc/cpuinfo which may mislead userspace apps into using NEON.

The NEON context-switching code enabled by CONFIG_NEON should not itself cause problems.