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    powerpc/powernv: Fallback to old HMI handling behavior for old firmware · 6507955c
    Mahesh Salgaonkar authored
    Recently we moved HMI handling into Linux kernel instead of taking
    HMI directly in OPAL. This new change is dependent on new OPAL call
    for HMI recovery which was introduced in newer firmware. While this new
    change works fine with latest OPAL firmware, we broke the HMI handling
    if we run newer kernel on old OPAL firmware that results in system hang.
    
    This patch fixes this issue by falling back to old HMI behavior on older
    OPAL firmware.
    
    This patch introduces a check for opal token OPAL_HANDLE_HMI to see
    if we are running on newer firmware or old firmware. On newer firmware
    this check would return OPAL_TOKEN_PRESENT, otherwise we are running on
    old firmware and fallback to old HMI behavior.
    
    Old firmware: POWER8 System Firmware Release as of today <= SV810_087
    Action: Let OPAL handle HMIs
    
    Newer firmware: in development/yet to be released.
    Action: Let Linux host handle HMIs.
    
    This patch depends on opal check token patch posted at ppc-devel
    https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2014-August/120224.htmlSigned-off-by: default avatarMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    [mpe: Minor comment and printk rewording]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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