[PATCH v2 6/6] powerpc/pseries: Add firmware details to the hardware description

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Fri Sep 30 12:06:39 AEST 2022


Nathan Lynch <nathanl at linux.ibm.com> writes:
> Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> writes:
>> Add firmware version details to the hardware description, which is
>> printed at boot and in case of an oops.
>>
>> Use /hypervisor if we find it, though currently it only exists if we're
>> running under qemu.
>>
>> Look for "ibm,powervm-partition" which is specified in PAPR+ v2.11 and
>> tells us we're running under PowerVM.
>>
>> Failing that look for "ibm,fw-net-version" which is seen on PowerVM
>> going back to at least Power6.
>>
>> eg: Hardware name: ... of:'IBM,FW860.42 (SV860_138)' hv:'phyp'
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
>> ---
>>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)
>>
>> v2: Look for "ibm,powervm-partition" as suggested by Nathan.
>>     Use of_property_read_string().
>
> LGTM.
>
> I noticed that we don't get an "of:" report with qemu+vof, because there's no
> /openprom node.
>
> $ qemu-system-ppc64 -nographic -vga none -M pseries,x-vof=off -kernel vmlinux | grep Hardware
> Hardware name: model:'IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu)' cpu:'POWER9 (raw)' pvr:0x4e1200 lpvr:0xf000005 of:'SLOF,HEAD' machine:pSeries
> $ qemu-system-ppc64 -nographic -vga none -M pseries,x-vof=on -kernel vmlinux | grep Hardware
> Hardware name: model:'IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu)' cpu:'POWER9 (raw)' pvr:0x4e1200 lpvr:0xf000005 machine:pSeries
> $ qemu-system-ppc64 --version
> QEMU emulator version 7.0.0 (qemu-7.0.0-6.fc36)
>
> I didn't see anything in the vof device tree that would help though.

OK. We don't boot via prom_init when booting with vof, so in that sense
there is no OF.

I think the combo of seeing qemu but no "of" is sufficient to recognise
that case.

cheers


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