I'm running Cog on aarch64, and because I have an old linux kernel (v3.18.140) which I cannot upgrade (it's a repurposed PostmarketOS Android device), Cog yields illegal instruction trying to execute mrs x0, id_aa64isar0_el1. This instruction is privileged, but later linux kernels trap and emulate it for userspace.

Given that it's currently only being used to detect presence of atomic instructions (self setHasAtomicInstructions: (idISAR0 >> 20 bitAnd: 2r1111) = 2r10), and there's a kernel API for retrieving that specific bit of information (https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/arm64/elf_hwcaps.html suggests HWCAP_ATOMICS), perhaps instead of using the instruction directly Cog could call the relevant getauxval variant?

For now, I have the Stack VM running well on aarch64, so I can make progress, even if it is a little slower than it could be :-)

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