[Skiboot] [PATCH] Witherspoon: Remove old Witherspoon platform definition

Alistair Popple alistair at popple.id.au
Thu Jan 11 15:38:24 AEDT 2018


On Tuesday, 9 January 2018 9:16:47 AM AEDT Oliver wrote:
> b) The remaining witherspoon_probe() will not match on systems that
> don't have an npu-power9 node or the device-tree based PCIe slot
> information. Odds are it'll fall back to the generic P9 platform so we
> might want to amend witherspoon_probe() to be more accepting or have
> it abort() if finds a system with out of date firmware.
> 

Good point. I will resubmit a V2 which removes the checks for npu-power9
and PCIe slot information as there shouldn't be any problem booting as a
Witherspoon system without those (the NPU devices won't get created, but
that is hardly a problem).

- Alistair



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