[Skiboot] [PATCH V2 0/7] NPU HMI support

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Mar 31 17:35:37 AEDT 2016


Russell Currey <ruscur at russell.cc> writes:
> This series enables NPU-raised HMIs to be handled correctly, preventing a
> NPU failure from checkstopping an entire system.
>
> Patch 1 adds a return value to xscom_{read/write}, enabling the existing
> HMI code to not checkstop a machine because a CPU is asleep.
>
> Patches 2 and 3 are changes required for later code to work.  Patch 2 was
> co-authored with Oliver O'Halloran.
>
> Patch 4 is a trivial error message change.
>
> Patches 5 and 6 are generic HMI code fixes.
>
> Patch 7 enables all the NPU stuff.
>
> I don't fully understand how the OPAL release cycle works, but these
> patches will need to be shipped with Garrison.

Merged into skiboot-5.2.x branch and into skiboot master.

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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