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Re: [PATCH v2] docs: Minor updates on the powernv documentation.


From: Leonardo Augusto Guimarães Garcia
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] docs: Minor updates on the powernv documentation.
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 08:39:47 -0300
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On 12/2/21 03:51, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> Hello Leonardo,
>
> On 11/23/21 13:10, lagarcia@linux.ibm.com wrote:
>> From: Leonardo Garcia <lagarcia@br.ibm.com>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Leonardo Garcia <lagarcia@br.ibm.com>
>> ---
>
> It seems that POWER10 was renamed to Power10 but not POWER9. And :
>
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power9  redirects to POWER9
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER10 redirects to Power10
>
> I will keep the upper case POWER9. No need to resend.


 
Ok. Thanks! I'll keep this nomenclature on the pseries documentation
patches as well.
 
Cheers,
 
Leo


>
> Thanks,
>
> C.
>
>
>
>>   docs/system/ppc/powernv.rst | 57 +++++++++++++++++++------------------
>>   1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/docs/system/ppc/powernv.rst b/docs/system/ppc/powernv.rst
>> index 86186b7d2c..eda4219a27 100644
>> --- a/docs/system/ppc/powernv.rst
>> +++ b/docs/system/ppc/powernv.rst
>> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>> -PowerNV family boards (``powernv8``, ``powernv9``)
>> +PowerNV family boards (``powernv8``, ``powernv9``, ``powernv10``)
>>   ==================================================================
>>   -PowerNV (as Non-Virtualized) is the "baremetal" platform using the
>> +PowerNV (as Non-Virtualized) is the "bare metal" platform using the
>>   OPAL firmware. It runs Linux on IBM and OpenPOWER systems and it can
>>   be used as an hypervisor OS, running KVM guests, or simply as a host
>>   OS.
>> @@ -15,17 +15,15 @@ beyond the scope of what QEMU addresses today.
>>   Supported devices
>>   -----------------
>>   - * Multi processor support for POWER8, POWER8NVL and POWER9.
>> - * XSCOM, serial communication sideband bus to configure chiplets
>> - * Simple LPC Controller
>> - * Processor Service Interface (PSI) Controller
>> - * Interrupt Controller, XICS (POWER8) and XIVE (POWER9)
>> - * POWER8 PHB3 PCIe Host bridge and POWER9 PHB4 PCIe Host bridge
>> - * Simple OCC is an on-chip microcontroller used for power management
>> -   tasks
>> - * iBT device to handle BMC communication, with the internal BMC
>> -   simulator provided by QEMU or an external BMC such as an Aspeed
>> -   QEMU machine.
>> + * Multi processor support for POWER8, POWER8NVL and Power9.
>> + * XSCOM, serial communication sideband bus to configure chiplets.
>> + * Simple LPC Controller.
>> + * Processor Service Interface (PSI) Controller.
>> + * Interrupt Controller, XICS (POWER8) and XIVE (Power9) and XIVE2
>> (Power10).
>> + * POWER8 PHB3 PCIe Host bridge and POWER9 PHB4 PCIe Host bridge.
>> + * Simple OCC is an on-chip micro-controller used for power
>> management tasks.
>> + * iBT device to handle BMC communication, with the internal BMC
>> simulator
>> +   provided by QEMU or an external BMC such as an Aspeed QEMU machine.
>>    * PNOR containing the different firmware partitions.
>>     Missing devices
>> @@ -33,27 +31,25 @@ Missing devices
>>     A lot is missing, among which :
>>   - * POWER10 processor
>> - * XIVE2 (POWER10) interrupt controller
>> - * I2C controllers (yet to be merged)
>> - * NPU/NPU2/NPU3 controllers
>> - * EEH support for PCIe Host bridge controllers
>> - * NX controller
>> - * VAS controller
>> - * chipTOD (Time Of Day)
>> + * I2C controllers (yet to be merged).
>> + * NPU/NPU2/NPU3 controllers.
>> + * EEH support for PCIe Host bridge controllers.
>> + * NX controller.
>> + * VAS controller.
>> + * chipTOD (Time Of Day).
>>    * Self Boot Engine (SBE).
>> - * FSI bus
>> + * FSI bus.
>>     Firmware
>>   --------
>>     The OPAL firmware (OpenPower Abstraction Layer) for OpenPower
>> systems
>>   includes the runtime services ``skiboot`` and the bootloader kernel
>> and
>> -initramfs ``skiroot``. Source code can be found on GitHub:
>> +initramfs ``skiroot``. Source code can be found on the `OpenPOWER
>> account at
>> +GitHub <https://github.com/open-power>`_.
>>   -  https://github.com/open-power.
>> -
>> -Prebuilt images of ``skiboot`` and ``skiroot`` are made available on
>> the `OpenPOWER <https://github.com/open-power/op-build/releases/>`__
>> site.
>> +Prebuilt images of ``skiboot`` and ``skiroot`` are made available on
>> the
>> +`OpenPOWER <https://github.com/open-power/op-build/releases/>`__ site.
>>     QEMU includes a prebuilt image of ``skiboot`` which is updated
>> when a
>>   more recent version is required by the models.
>> @@ -83,6 +79,7 @@ and a SATA disk :
>>     Complex PCIe configuration
>>   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> +
>>   Six PHBs are defined per chip (POWER9) but no default PCI layout is
>>   provided (to be compatible with libvirt). One PCI device can be added
>>   on any of the available PCIe slots using command line options such as:
>> @@ -157,7 +154,7 @@ one on the command line :
>>   The files `palmetto-SDR.bin
>> <http://www.kaod.org/qemu/powernv/palmetto-SDR.bin>`__
>>   and `palmetto-FRU.bin
>> <http://www.kaod.org/qemu/powernv/palmetto-FRU.bin>`__
>>   define a Sensor Data Record repository and a Field Replaceable Unit
>> -inventory for a palmetto BMC. They can be used to extend the QEMU BMC
>> +inventory for a Palmetto BMC. They can be used to extend the QEMU BMC
>>   simulator.
>>     .. code-block:: bash
>> @@ -189,4 +186,8 @@ CAVEATS
>>   -------
>>      * No support for multiple HW threads (SMT=1). Same as pseries.
>> - * CPU can hang when doing intensive I/Os. Use ``-append
>> powersave=off`` in that case.
>> +
>> +Maintainer contact information
>> +------------------------------
>> +
>> +Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
>> \ No newline at end of file
>>
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