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| author | Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-02-06 16:29:37 +1100 |
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| committer | Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-02-06 16:29:37 +1100 |
| commit | d9db0f84c0edac86c49b5c7c084e88e391715123 (patch) | |
| tree | 649176f28004fb08f197204ddc27965d34005e9c | |
| parent | 774d32584fad22ebd7470b47253918924cbd01a4 (diff) | |
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Add documentation for OPAL_CHECK_TOKEN
Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/opal-api/opal-check-token-80.txt | 23 |
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diff --git a/doc/opal-api/opal-check-token-80.txt b/doc/opal-api/opal-check-token-80.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4c5f7c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/opal-api/opal-check-token-80.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +OPAL_CHECK_TOKEN +---------------- + +This OPAL call allows the host OS to determine if a particular OPAL call is present +on a system. This allows for simple compatibility between OPAL versions and different +OPAL implementations/platforms. + +One parameter is accepted: the OPAL token number. + +OPAL_CHECK_TOKEN will return: + +enum OpalCheckTokenStatus { + OPAL_TOKEN_ABSENT = 0, + OPAL_TOKEN_PRESENT = 1 +}; + +indicating the presence/absence of the particular OPAL_CALL. + +OPAL_CHECK_TOKEN is REQUIRED to be implemented by a conformant OPAL implementation. + +For skiboot, only positively ancient internal-to-IBM versions were missing +OPAL_CHECK_TOKEN. In this case, OPAL_PARAMETER would be returned. There is no +reason for a host OS to support this behaviour. |