Recent qemu -cpu cortex-a57 based https://ci.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD-main-aarch64-* failures . . .

Unfortunately, various https://ci.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD-main-aarch64-*
activities are using:

FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #0 e39e6be: Wed Sep 20 22:15:31 UTC 2023

which is after the pair (2023-Sep-20):

    • git: c643e82dba0b - main - arm64: Fix errata workarounds that depend on smccc Andrew Turner 
    • git: 8a723e2bd868 - main - Check SMCCC is ready before using Andrew Turner

but before the correction (2023-Sep-21):

    • git: 843bea18711d - main - arm64: Move all BP hardening quirks later Andrew Turner

The lack of the correction leads to these "cortex-a57" contexts getting:

. . .
15:06:43 VT: init without driver.
15:06:44 module scmi already present!
15:06:44 real memory = 8589934592 (8192 MB)
15:06:44 avail memory = 8163921920 (7785 MB)
15:06:44 panic: Assertion smccc_version != 0 failed at /usr/src/sys/dev/psci/smccc.c:81
15:06:44 cpuid = 0
15:06:44 time = 1
15:06:44 KDB: stack backtrace:
15:06:44 db_trace_self() at db_trace_self
15:06:44 db_trace_self_wrapper() at db_trace_self_wrapper+0xbc
15:06:44 kdb_backtrace() at kdb_backtrace+0xb4
15:06:44 vpanic() at vpanic+0x224
15:06:44 panic() at panic+0xb8
15:06:44 smccc_arch_features() at smccc_arch_features+0x9c
15:06:44 install_cpu_errata() at install_cpu_errata+0x54
15:06:44 cpu_startup() at cpu_startup+0xe8
15:06:44 mi_startup() at mi_startup+0x234
15:06:44 virtdone() at virtdone+0x7c
15:06:44 KDB: enter: panic
15:06:44 [ thread pid 0 tid 0 ]
15:06:44 Stopped at kdb_enter+0x40: undefined f905927f
15:06:44 db> Build timed out (after 1,200 minutes). Marking the build as failed.
. . .

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Mark Millard
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