[Skiboot-stable] [PATCH] xive/p9: Remove assert from xive_eq_for_target()

[Greg Kurz]

On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:44:01 +0100
Cédric Le Goater <clg at kaod.org> wrote:

[...]
> > 
> > Hmm... some existing setups might still be using power8 compat mode
> > for legitimate reasons, eg. workload only certified on POWER8. 
> 
> To be clear, I am talking of XICS emulation in OPAL/BML and not in KVM
> or PowerVM. 
> 

Ah, I got confused, sorry. Thanks for the clarification.

> If I am correct, the certification of an application is tied to an OS 
> which is tied to a set of HW. RH7 is certified to run on POWER8 but 
> not on POWER9. So, if it might work to run a RH7 on a POWER9 but 
> I doubt Redhat would guarantee any POWER8 workload there. 
> 

RH guarantees that a RHEL7 guest runs in POWER8 compat mode on a
POWER9 host AFAIK.

> C.