Upstream has been working with me to try to determine what is going on
here. The conclusion is that we believe that firmware is piggy-backing
on the ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND calls, and is clobbering some of the
registers in the x4-x17 range. The patch series mentioned in Comment #9
happens to avoid consuming those registers, hiding the issue. Apparently
clobbering those registers was previously OK, but the SMCCCv1.1 update
mandates that x4-x17 be preserved, which the firmware authors may have
missed.

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  [scalingstack bos01] bionic (arm64) instances always fail to boot on
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