[Skiboot] [PATCH 00/10] hwprobe patches

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Mon Jul 5 10:39:15 AEST 2021


Excerpts from Stewart Smith's message of July 3, 2021 4:01 am:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2021, at 7:38 PM, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>> I've kept these patches going and made some small changes here and
>> there. The series also removes POWER8 DD1 in order to move P8
>> specific SLW code under CONFIG_P8 without causing a lot of clashes
>> with POWER8 DD1 removal that I want to do for a later patch
>> (rewriting OPAL_REINIT_CPUS code) so I thought it could just go here.
>> 
>> This is not based on the patches Vasant just submitted, I'm happy to
>> rebase it, just wanted to post it out now as is to see if people are
>> happy with it.
>> 
>> The main non-cosmetic change is adding CONFIG_P8/NPU defines to the
>> preprocessor, which allows a lot more flexibility with modularising
>> stuff.
> 
> Neat! I'd been meaning to resurrect these. Not sure I can really reviewed-by my own patches with a straight face, but I still think they're a good idea :)
> 

Just so long as you don't have a problem with the tweaks I made (I can 
add a small note about it in the changelog). If you preferred to take 
over that's fine too, I probably should have pinged you first.

We're running into some 512kB limit on some platforms (although I liked 
the patches even before that :P).

Thanks,
Nick


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