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@@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ Groups:
Bits for undefined preemption levels are RAZ/WI.
+ Note that this differs from a CPU's view of the APRs on hardware in which
+ a GIC without the security extensions expose group 0 and group 1 active
+ priorities in separate register groups, whereas we show a combined view
+ similar to GICv2's GICH_APR.
+
For historical reasons and to provide ABI compatibility with userspace we
export the GICC_PMR register in the format of the GICH_VMCR.VMPriMask
field in the lower 5 bits of a word, meaning that userspace must always