[Skiboot] [PATCH RFC v2 00/12] opal-prd updates for p9

[Breno Leitao]

Hi,

On 06/06/2017 01:57 AM, Vasant Hegde wrote:
> On 06/05/2017 01:27 PM, Stewart Smith wrote:
>> Jeremy Kerr <jk at ozlabs.org> writes:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> The following changes implement opal-prd functionality for P9. The core
>>> change is the hostboot interface updates, and some base-level support
>>> for the new callbacks.
>>>
>>> Part of this series is the introduction of the opaque firmware <--> HBRT
>>> channel, which means we should be able to avoid userspace (and kernel)
>>> updates for future feature additions.
>>>
>>> These patches are RFC only at this stage, and have ony had light
>>> testing. Please let me know if you have any comments/changes.
>>
>> On witherspoon, with hostboot-d96098e (current op-build version as of
>> "today"), opal-prd still segfaults somewhere in call_hbrt_init (i.e. the
>> HBRT code).
>>
> 
> Stewart,
> 
> Which distro are you running? If you compile (standard compilation)  and run
> opal-prd
> on Ubuntu 17.04 it segfaults. I had observed this earlier.
> 
> Basically some flags in default compilation changes and which is causing this
> issue. Ihad asked Breno to follow up with Canonical.

If this is a compilation problem, we can fix this type of problem easily in
17.XX.

In fact, I am more concerned about 16.04.3, where we are going to support
POWER9 also but we can't upgrade opal-prd/skiboot version. Skiboot current
version is 5.1.13 in 16.04.

The strategy is to cherry picking the patches required for POWER9 into
16.04.3 opal-prd/skiboot version.

If you provide me a list of the commit-id on top of 5.1.13 that are necessary
for POWER9, I can work to get it accepted into Ubuntu.