On Thu, 2016-30-06 at 14:34:37 UTC, Oliver O'Halloran wrote: > This patch adds an OPAL console backend to the powerpc boot wrapper so > that decompression failures inside the wrapper can be reported to the > user. This is important since it typically indicates data corruption in > the firmware and other nasty things. > > Currently this only works when building a little endian kernel. When > compiling a 64 bit BE kernel the wrapper is always build 32 bit to be > compatible with some 32 bit firmwares. BE support will be added at a > later date. Another limitation of this is that only the "raw" type of > OPAL console is supported, however machines that provide a hvsi console > also provide a raw console so this is not an issue in practice. > > Actually-written-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@xxxxxxxxx> Applied to powerpc next, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/656ad58ef19e2a763fa5c938b2 cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html