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From: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Akshay Adiga <akshay.adiga@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: skiboot@lists.ozlabs.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [Skiboot] [PATCH 1/2] SLW: Remove stop1_lite and stop0 stop states
Date: Mon, 07 May 2018 01:37:07 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736z44wyk.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877eok9qs1.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au>

Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> writes:
> Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> ...
>>
>> Slightly stupid question: should we be disabling these here or should
>> Linux be better and deciding what states to use?
>>
>> I'm inclined to say this is a Linux problem as it should make the
>> decision of what hardware feature to used based on the ones OPAL says
>> *can* be used.
>
> Yeah I agree.
>
> Firmware shouldn't be implementing the policy around what states to use,
> it should tell the operating system (which might be Linux) what states
> are available and what their features are.

Yeah... I think I should work out somewhere to put this in the
documentation, a kind of design philosophy we can point back to.

> The exception to that would be that we have unfixable crash bugs in
> existing kernels, in that case firmware might have to filter out states
> that are known to cause those.

s/in/with/ and *cough* stop11 for example.

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.

      reply	other threads:[~2018-05-06 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1525079529-2284-1-git-send-email-akshay.adiga@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-05-01  3:47 ` [Skiboot] [PATCH 1/2] SLW: Remove stop1_lite and stop0 stop states Nicholas Piggin
2018-05-03  9:06   ` Akshay Adiga
2018-05-03  9:28     ` Nicholas Piggin
2018-05-03 10:03       ` Stewart Smith
2018-05-03 10:15         ` Nicholas Piggin
2018-05-10  8:59           ` Akshay Adiga
2018-05-10 10:02             ` Nicholas Piggin
2018-05-04  1:02         ` Michael Ellerman
2018-05-06 15:37           ` Stewart Smith [this message]

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