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| author | Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2016-06-20 17:04:38 +1000 |
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| committer | Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2016-06-21 11:38:48 +1000 |
| commit | 7a765da143636b89e5a8630c3754e1c6f9f49307 (patch) | |
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Document changes in OPAL API for POWER9
Well, the beginning of a TODO list at least
Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/doc/opal-api/power9-changes.txt b/doc/opal-api/power9-changes.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0552bb3 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/opal-api/power9-changes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +POWER9 Changes to OPAL API +-------------------------- + +This document is a summary of POWER9 changes to the OPAL API over what it +was for POWER7 and POWER8. As the POWER series of processors (at least up +to POWER9) require changes in the hypervisor to work on a new processor +generation, this gives us an opportunity with POWER9 to clean up several +parts of the OPAL API. + +Eventually, when the kernel drops support for POWER8 and before, we can then +remove the associated kernel code too. + + +TODO +---- +Things we still have to do for POWER9: +- remove opal-v2 from compatible string. +- PCI to use async API rather than returning delays +- deprecate/remove v1 APIs where there's a V2 |