[Skiboot] [PATCH v3] flash: Move flash node under ibm, opal/flash/

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Oct 19 20:22:39 AEDT 2016


Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org> writes:
> On Wed, 2016-08-10 at 19:20 -0500, Jack Miller wrote:
>> This changes the boot ABI, so it's only active for P9 and later systems,
>> even though it's unrelated to hardware changes. There is an associated
>> Linux change to properly search for this node as well.
>
> We can't have backwards incompatible device tree changes!
>
> We need to revert this.  This breaks existing Linux kernels.
>
> Stewart, please revert e1e6d009860d0ef60f9daf7a0fbe15f869516bd0
>
> I just spend an afternoon working out why my flash disappeared when I upgraded
> skiboot.

So it seems that the ship has sailed for such things for p9 timeframe,
and instead we'll have to go and add a workaround in FWTS (at least for
this).

Anyway, reverted for now.

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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