[Skiboot] [PATCH 0/5] Support for POWER ISA v3 idle states

[Stewart Smith]

Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org> writes:
> On Thu, 2016-04-21 at 19:17 +0530, Shreyas B. Prabhu wrote:
>
>> POWER ISA v3 defines a new idle processor core mechanism. In summary,
>>  a) new instruction named stop is added. This instruction replaces
>> 	instructions like nap, sleep, rvwinkle.
>>  b) new per thread SPR named PSSCR is added which controls the behavior
>> 	of stop instruction. 
>> 		
>> This patch series adds support for the new idle states and also has
>> some minor cleanups.
>
> Worth noting, these are based on an internal power9 tree and won't
> apply let alone compile against upstream skiboot.

I suspected as much.

Not merging - it can come later after P9 lands.

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.