[Skiboot] [PATCH V2 4/5] capi: Load capp microcode

[Stewart Smith]

Frederic Barrat <fbarrat at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> Le 03/04/2017 à 04:30, Stewart Smith a écrit :
>> Christophe Lombard <clombard at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>>> CAPP microcode flash download and CAPP upload for PHB4.
>>> A new file 'capp.c' is created to receive common capp code for PHB3 and
>>> PHB4.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Lombard <clombard at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>
>> When are we likely to see P9 CAPP ucode hit github? Currently it's
>> impossible to test functionality of capi code on p9 as there's no
>> locatable capp ucode to load in.
>>
>> (well... except ZZ I guess, as FSP will have it)
>
>
> Hi Stewart,
>
> We are still doing capi bringup on real-hardware, so it's a bit early 
> for you testing anything.

Okay - is there anything urgent for merging this or can it wait until
closer to the end of April? I'm out for the next 2 weeks and it'd be
better if we could merge something that is working pretty well on real
hardware so that we don't disturb others.

> I'd also like to have the capp ucode in op-build, since I'm already 
> tired of setting it up manually. I'm checking with the capp folks if 
> they have any problem with it.

There may be enough room in the PNOR partition to include them all, we
seem to have a 144kb partition with only 40kb used.

> Then we'll need to work a bit the capp-ucode build to find out if we are 
> building for p8 or p9, so that we populate cappucode.bin with the 
> correct content.

The subpartition logic in there could probably just append it, and
that'll be the least effort to get going. Optimising PNOR space usage
can always come later :)

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.