[Pdbg] [PATCH v2 00/20] Add p10 support to libpdbg

Amitay Isaacs amitay at ozlabs.org
Thu Oct 8 18:54:44 AEDT 2020


On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 11:48 +0000, Joel Stanley wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 at 07:09, Amitay Isaacs <amitay at ozlabs.org> wrote:
> > This patchset adds support for POWER10 (P10) processor to libpdbg.
> > Starting from P10, most of the hardware accesses from BMC go via
> > sbe.
> > This is implemented as a seperate sbefifo backend.  On a secure P10
> > system, raw devices used by kernel driver will not work and all
> > hardware
> > access (except fsi) must go via SBE.
> > 
> > SBEFIFO library is updated to deal with slightly different
> > conventions between
> > P9 and P10 when specifying core ids.  New chip-ops are added to SBE
> > to read
> > scoms from ocmb.
> > 
> > v2 changes:
> >   - Add missing static declarations for p10 hardware units
> >   - Split p10 address translation tests patch
> >   - Drop IBM confidential prolog from imported EKB code
> >   - Document source of libsbefifo api specification
> 
> Looks good!

Thanks for the review.  There are some bug fix patches that need to go
in first before I push these patches upstream.  I will post the bug fix
patches after India team has done their testing.


Amitay.
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