[Skiboot] [PATCH] doc: Document ibm,heartbeat-ms

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.ibm.com
Tue Apr 3 14:57:56 AEST 2018


and by 'document', I mean 'gather a few extra minor bits of breadcrumbs
of clues as to what, when and why this thing exists'.

Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.ibm.com>
---
 doc/device-tree/ibm,opal.rst | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/device-tree/ibm,opal.rst b/doc/device-tree/ibm,opal.rst
index 932f41d05cde..2fa446ddef04 100644
--- a/doc/device-tree/ibm,opal.rst
+++ b/doc/device-tree/ibm,opal.rst
@@ -50,3 +50,24 @@ Top level ibm,opal node
 		opal-runtime-size = <0x0 0x9a00000>;
 		phandle = <0x10000003>;
     };
+
+.. ibm-heartbeat-ms:
+
+ibm,heartbeat-ms
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+.. code-block:: dts
+
+   ibm,opal {
+		ibm,heartbeat-ms = <0x7d0>;
+   }
+
+
+Any OS targetting POWER9 processors *must* respect `ibm,heartbeat-ms`.
+
+Linux kernels prior to v4.1-rc1 would ignore `ibm,heartbeat-ms`. These only
+supported POWER8 systems.
+
+On the earliest POWER8 OPAL systems, there was `ibm,heartbeat-freq` instead.
+However, no OS at the time ever looked at that value, so it can be ignored
+by any new operating systems.
-- 
2.14.3



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