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[Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris,

Yes, 6a11e5c6 adds the IPMI driver. Is that not already in the vivid
tree?

The PRD and MTD changes are headed upstream, I was just sending to you
for an indication of what to expect.

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Title:
  backport request: include support for OpenPower hardware

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in linux source package in Utopic:
  New
Status in linux source package in Vivid:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  This is a HWE SRU for OpenPower support in 3.16.

  [Fix]
  upstream commits:
      4c3b2168 a4bcbe6a 529d235a \
      08135139 c1c3a526 b921e902 \
      3bf57561 e8a51e1b 5590f319

  [Test Case]
  Ensure kernel boots on specific OpenPower hardware.

  --

  
  We've prepared a series of patches (ported to Ubuntu-3.19.0-11.11), which add OpenPower support to the Ubuntu kernel.

  The changes are available in the ubuntu/vivid branch of:

   https://github.com/open-power/linux.git

  (or I can attach them separately).

  Changelogs are as follows:

  commit 2f0190bd43764559b250a5bd11aca050f909aa21
  Author: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Fri Nov 14 16:13:50 2014 +1100

      powerpc/powernv: Support OPAL requested heartbeat

      If OPAL requests it, call it back via opal_poll_events() at a
      regular interval. Some versions of OPAL on some machines require
      this to operate some internal timeouts properly.

      Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

      Backport notes:
       cherry-picked from mpe-next, 3bf57561d4dbd36ba45ce05656b0469bfdcc7ef2
       minor conflicts resolved
      Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx>

  commit e1c89541e7163494ad091f3c2622649d91ac7597
  Author: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Mon Feb 16 14:59:08 2015 +1100

      device: Add dev_of_node() accessor

      Suggested by Arnd Bergmann, this gives a practical accessor for
      the of_node field of struct device while instructing the compiler
      that it will be NULL if CONFIG_OF is not set.

      Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>

      Backport notes:
       Submission to LKML at: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5831161/
      Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx>

  commit 2c242b30756f77528516a4e9e986818ac4e90490
  Author: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Wed Feb 18 11:25:18 2015 +1100

      drivers/core/of: Add symlink to device-tree from devices with an
  OF node

      So I've been annoyed lately with having a bunch of devices such as i2c
      eeproms (for use by VPDs, server world !) and other bits and pieces that
      I want to be able to identify from userspace, and possibly provide
      additional data about from FW.

      Basically, it boils down to correlating the sysfs device with the OF
      tree device node, so that user space can use device-tree info such as
      additional "location" or "label" (or whatever else we can come up with)
      propreties to identify a given device, or get some attributes of use
      about it, etc...

      Now, so far, we've done that in some subsystem in a fairly ad-hoc basis
      using "devspec" properties. For example, PCI creates them if it can
      correlate the probed device with a DT node. Some powerpc specific busses
      do that too.

      However, i2c doesn't and it would be nice to have something more generic
      since technically any device can have a corresponding device tree node.

      This patch adds an "of_node" symlink to devices that have a non-NULL
      dev->of_node pointer, the patch is pretty trivial and seems to work just
      fine for me.

      Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>

      Backport notes:
       Submission to LKML at: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5842241/
      Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx>

  commit 1d9d9bdad2553f39de92eba40f8663eb45819e8c
  Author: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Sat Mar 28 21:35:16 2015 +1100

      powerpc: Add a proper syscall for switching endianness

      We currently have a "special" syscall for switching endianness. This is
      syscall number 0x1ebe, which is handled explicitly in the 64-bit syscall
      exception entry.

      That has a few problems, firstly the syscall number is outside of the
      usual range, which confuses various tools. For example strace doesn't
      recognise the syscall at all.

      Secondly it's handled explicitly as a special case in the syscall
      exception entry, which is complicated enough without it.

      As a first step toward removing the special syscall, we need to add a
      regular syscall that implements the same functionality.

      The logic is simple, it simply toggles the MSR_LE bit in the userspace
      MSR. This is the same as the special syscall, with the caveat that the
      special syscall clobbers fewer registers.

      This version clobbers r9-r12, XER, CTR, and CR0-1,5-7.

      Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

      Backport notes:
       Cherry-picked (with conflicts resolved) from mpe-next,
       commit 529d235a0e190ded1d21ccc80a73e625ebcad09b
      Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx>

  commit 352598493e72d80fcf136b5c30add7f9dd32b30a
  Author: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@xxxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Tue Feb 17 18:27:34 2015 +1100

      powerpc/powernv: Add interfaces for flash device access

      This change adds the OPAL interface definitions to allow Linux to read,
      write and erase from system flash devices. We register platform devices
      for the flash devices exported by firmware.

      We clash with the existing opal_flash_init function, which is really for
      the FSP flash update functionality, so we rename that initcall to
      opal_flash_update_init().

      A future change will add an mtd driver that uses this interface.

      Changes from Joel Stanley and Jeremy Kerr.

      Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@xxxxxxxxx>
      Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx>
      Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>

      Backport notes:
       Submission to linuxppc-dev: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/457095/

  commit 1acd5ddde4a50eced6d39381f18126ac94b1ffb7
  Author: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@xxxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Tue Feb 17 18:27:35 2015 +1100

      drivers/mtd: add powernv flash MTD abstraction driver

      Powerpc powernv platforms allow access to certain system flash devices
      through a firmwarwe interface. This change adds an mtd driver for these
      flash devices.

      Minor updates from Jeremy Kerr and Joel Stanley.

      Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@xxxxxxxxx>
      Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>
      Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx>

      Backport notes:
       Upstream submission at: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/457096/

  commit 37889e2e1b7fd7576a83cdddca60d2ff81020d24
  Author: Neelesh Gupta <neelegup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Wed Feb 11 11:57:23 2015 +0530

      powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL message notifier unregister function

      Provide an unregister interface for the opal message notifiers
      to be called when not needed like during driver unload/remove.

      Signed-off-by: Neelesh Gupta <neelegup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Reviewed-by: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

      Backport notes:
       Cherry-picked from mpe-next: b921e90260cec1e04988bb3763491de885b67b51
      Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx>

  commit 744b9761d910fa26f76b99b21d4a86110bac2db2
  Author: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Fri Jan 30 17:13:08 2015 +1030

      powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL soft-poweroff routine

      Register a notifier for a OPAL message indicating that the machine
      should prepare itself for a graceful power off.

      OPAL will tell us if the power off is a reboot or shutdown, but for now
      we perform the same orderly_poweroff action.

      Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>
      Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

      Backport notes:
       Cherry-picked from upstream commit d3f180ea1a44aecba1b0dab2a253428e77f906bf
      Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx>

  commit 6f4b0f59a9a359bfa859bbb69aed6e50e891f613
  Author: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Thu Apr 2 11:18:28 2015 +0800

      drivers/sbus/char/envctrl.c: ignore orderly_poweroff return value

      orderly_poweroff() unconditionally returns 0, so remove the dead code that
      checks the return value.

      A future patch will change the return type to void.

      Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>
      Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx>
      Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

      Backport notes:
       Queued in -mm tree:
         http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/envctrl-ignore-orderly_poweroff-return-value.patch

      Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx>

  commit 53cffb522127c3cae82bce12a2434f8ef6f4b1e3
  Author: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Thu Apr 2 11:19:22 2015 +0800

      kernel/reboot.c: add orderly_reboot for graceful reboot

      The kernel has orderly_poweroff which allows the kernel to initiate a
      graceful shutdown of userspace, by running /sbin/poweroff.  This adds
      orderly_reboot that will cause userspace to shut itself down by calling
      /sbin/reboot.

      This will be used for shutdown initiated by a system controller on
      platforms that do not use ACPI.

      orderly_reboot() should be used when the system wants to allow userspace
      to gracefully shut itself down.  For cases where the system may imminently
      catch on fire, the existing emergency_restart() provides an immediate
      reboot without involving userspace.

      Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>
      Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx>
      Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

      Backported notes:
       Taken from -mm tree: http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kernel-rebootc-add-orderly_reboot-for-graceful-reboot.patch

  commit 63df16447d186fcfa83adecdbd7181551070ffa6
  Author: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Thu Apr 2 11:20:19 2015 +0800

      powerpc/powernv: reboot when requested by firmware

      Use orderly_reboot so userspace will to shut itself down via the reboot
      path.  This is required for graceful reboot initiated by the BMC, such as
      when a user uses ipmitool to issue a 'chassis power cycle' command.

      Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>
      Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx>
      Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

      Backport notes:
       Taken from -mm tree: http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/powerpc-powernv-reboot-when-requested-by-firmware.patch
      Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx>

  commit 8589e12d09d03b03167ce9cb9bc6c7070f3ccd7e
  Author: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Sat Feb 7 10:02:21 2015 +0800

      powerpc/powernv: Add opal-prd channel

      This change adds a char device to access the "PRD" (processor runtime
      diagnostics) channel to OPAL firmware.

      Includes contributions from Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, Neelesh Gupta &
      Vishal Kulkarni.

      Signed-off-by: Neelesh Gupta <neelegup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx>

      Backport notes:
        Submitted upstream: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/457097/
        Backport requires the OPAL_MSG_DPO definition

      Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx>

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