[Skiboot] [RESEND PATCH 01/11]ibm-fsp/firenze: nest data structure definitions

[Stewart Smith]

Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> On Friday 10 July 2015 12:20 PM, Stewart Smith wrote:
>> Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>>> Patch adds the data structures and macros needed for
>>> Nest instrumentation support. Patch creates new file in
>>> include dir called "nest.h".
>> Are any parts of this ABI to kernel?
>>
>> It looks as though we have an ABI to PORE though, and I can't see
>> anywhere where you check things like the magic number in these data
>> structures.
>>
> Structures defined here are not ABI to kernel. Some of these
> structures are related to catalog lid (meta-data file) parsing
> and some of the structures are related to PORE SLW IMA
> microcode.  Idea is to abstract the kernel from meta-data file
> mess, so that kernel can have a generic interface.

and that's a good thing.

We should likely check the magic numbers and validity of the data
structures though.