[PATCH] kexec/ppc64 Enable early kernel's OPAL calls

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Tue Feb 4 04:01:36 EST 2014


On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 08:24:21AM +0530, Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar wrote:
> On 01/24/2014 07:46 PM, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> > When the kernel is built with CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_OPAL set, it is
> > expecting to get r8 and r9 filled respectively with OPAL base address and
> > OPAL entry address (arc/power/head_64.S).
> > 
> > On the new powernv platform, having these 2 registers set allows the kernel
> > to perform OPAL calls before it parse the device tree.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Tested-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks, applied.



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