Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement MPIPL for PowerNV

[Aditya Gupta <adityag@linux.ibm.com>]

Hi Nick,

On 27/02/25 09:07, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> On Mon Feb 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM AEST, Aditya Gupta wrote:
>> Overview
>> =========
>>
>> Implemented MPIPL (Memory Preserving IPL, aka fadump) on PowerNV machine
>> in QEMU.
> Wow, that's a lot of effort.

Thanks Nick.


>> Note: It's okay if this isn't merged as there might be less users. Sending
>> for archieval purpose, as the patches can be referred for how fadump/mpipl
>> can be implemented in baremetal/PowerNV/any other arch QEMU.
> I would like to add it. It helps test a bunch of code that is in Linux
> and skiboot, so it would be quite useful. A functional test would be
> important to have.

Sure, it's not complete yet (didn't implement the CPU saving part) as I 
just wanted to do a experiment I did, will improve those things by v2 
then. It might take some time though.

Will look into the functional test thing also.

> I've had a glance through it, but better review might have to wait for
> until the next development cycle.

Sure, that's totally okay. Thank you for looking at it.


Thanks,

- Aditya G

> Thanks,
> Nick