[Skiboot] [PATCH 0/9] Initial "big cores" support for POWER9

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Sep 27 14:48:40 AEST 2018


This is based on initial work by Ryan Grimm with additions & cleanups by
myself.

Some notes:

 - This currently needs a special modified HostBoot

 - It's missing the "ibm,thread-groups" property to inform Linux about big cores

 - We need to look at HMI issues, as in some cases TFAC errors get only sent to
   one half but both half need to rendez-vous, so we need to "trigger" an error
   in the other half as well.

The above aren't blockers, it should be possible to merge this first.




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