[OpenPower-Firmware] Hardware documentation

[Andrew Donnellan]

On 15/10/19 9:55 am, Marty E. Plummer wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 01:34:07AM +0000, Daniel M Crowell wrote:
>>> think a goodly portion of it is directly executed (but I seem to recall
>>> reading that some of it just calls to the bits of hostboot still in
>>> memory after it gets loaded, pinged Stewart Smith about that).
>> There isn't anything in skiboot that requires any hostboot logic to be resident.
> Maybe I'm thinking of the linux kernel drivers then.

Yep, you're thinking of the PRD diagnostics which call into HBRT 
(HostBoot RunTime). You can do without it though.


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Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
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