[Skiboot] [PATCH V2] occ: Use major version number while checking the pstate table format

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.ibm.com
Mon May 7 03:26:43 AEST 2018


Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> The minor version increments of the pstate table are backward
> compatible. The minor version is changed when the pstate table
> remains same and the existing reserved bytes are used for pointing
> new data. So use only major version number while parsing the pstate
> table. This will allow old skiboot to parse the pstate table and
> handle minor version updates.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks! Merged to master as of 7dcd66655835fb9985686dad1393285bb75a0876

Are there plans to use the minor versions?


-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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