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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c index 98c5d94b17fb..aba443be7daa 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c @@ -202,16 +202,18 @@ static int __init opal_register_exception_handlers(void) glue = 0x7000; /* - * Check if we are running on newer firmware that exports - * OPAL_HANDLE_HMI token. If yes, then don't ask OPAL to patch - * the HMI interrupt and we catch it directly in Linux. + * Only ancient OPAL firmware requires this. + * Specifically, firmware from FW810.00 (released June 2014) + * through FW810.20 (Released October 2014). * - * For older firmware (i.e currently released POWER8 System Firmware - * as of today <= SV810_087), we fallback to old behavior and let OPAL - * patch the HMI vector and handle it inside OPAL firmware. + * Check if we are running on newer (post Oct 2014) firmware that + * exports the OPAL_HANDLE_HMI token. If yes, then don't ask OPAL to + * patch the HMI interrupt and we catch it directly in Linux. * - * For newer firmware (in development/yet to be released) we will - * start catching/handling HMI directly in Linux. + * For older firmware (i.e < FW810.20), we fallback to old behavior and + * let OPAL patch the HMI vector and handle it inside OPAL firmware. + * + * For newer firmware we catch/handle the HMI directly in Linux. */ if (!opal_check_token(OPAL_HANDLE_HMI)) { pr_info("Old firmware detected, OPAL handles HMIs.\n"); @@ -221,6 +223,11 @@ static int __init opal_register_exception_handlers(void) glue += 128; } + /* + * Only applicable to ancient firmware, all modern + * (post March 2015/skiboot 5.0) firmware will just return + * OPAL_UNSUPPORTED. + */ opal_register_exception_handler(OPAL_SOFTPATCH_HANDLER, 0, glue); #endif |