Looking for architecture papers

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Oct 3 14:07:09 AEST 2018


Raz <raziebe at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello
>
> I want to learn about powerpc architecture, mainly hypervisor and
> partioning.  I download the books (1,2, and 3 ) but I feel it lacks
> a lot of information. Are there other books ?

The ISA describes how the CPU works to allow you to implement a
hypervisor, but it doesn't describe any of the HV/Kernel APIs.

That's mostly covered in "LoPAPR":

  https://members.openpowerfoundation.org/document/dl/469


Although that's not been updated for Power9.

cheers


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