[Skiboot] [PATCH v9 00/10] Initial OpenCAPI 3.0 Support for P9

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Mar 2 18:23:12 AEDT 2018


Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com> writes:
> On 02/03/18 14:49, Stewart Smith wrote:
>> Is "merged to master as of bd6194f5a8647e2e8671a76f7af65244fa0d30e7" a
>> suitable comment?
>
> An extremely welcome comment. :)
>
>> i.e. I think we're okay to have this upstream now.
>> 
>> We may want to think about how we deal with OPAL APIs for things that
>> are in development (should we hide things behind a nvram setting until
>> we're sure they're okay?)
>
> We certainly want to avoid having mismatching API numbers in the
> kernel...

Yeah... maybe a key here is that the process should be that adding new
OPAL APIs involves getting some API numbers reserved first?

Of course, *saying* that and having people *do* it is two separate
things :)

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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