openpower 720, unknown Firmware/POST Error Code

Dave C Boutcher sleddog at us.ibm.com
Wed May 25 08:23:16 EST 2005


On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 08:09:12AM -0500, Doug Maxey wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 23 May 2005 11:33:34 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> >
> >Any idea what this number on the openpower 720 frontpanel means?
> >
> >b2018127
> >
> B2pp8127  	Description:
> 
>       Phyp was unable to allocate the memory needed to build the PFDS. 
> 
> pp == partition number.  Not sure about the PFDS.  Sounds like 
> something was changed, configuration wise.  

FWIW, PFDS is "Partition Firmware Data Structure".  I believe this
is the structure passed to Open Firmware from which it builds the
device tree.

-- 
Dave Boutcher



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