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

[Breno Leitao]

hi Vasant,

On 06/07/2017 03:58 AM, Vasant Hegde wrote:
> Breno,
> 
>> If this is a compilation problem, we can fix this type of problem easily in
>> 17.XX.
> 
> Can you please follow up with Canonical and fix this issue?

Sure. What is the fix exactly?

>> 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.
> 
> Hmmm. Best option is to upgrade skiboot version itself.

Right, but this is not feasible in the LTS releases. There is no package
version upgrade during the LTS release.

> We have to identify/backport all the patches required for opal-prd/utils and
> backport them.

I suppose that the backport process is quite simple, so, just give me the
commits ID and we can work on this.