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This driver provides an in-kernel and a user API for accessing the command FIFO of the SBE (Self Boot Engine) of the POWER9 processor, via the FSI bus. It provides an in-kernel interface to submit command and receive responses, along with a helper to locate and analyse the response status block. It's a simple synchronous submit() type API. The user interface uses the write/read interface that an earlier version of this driver already provided, however it has some specific limitations in order to keep the driver simple and avoid using up a lot of kernel memory: - The user should perform a single write() with the command and a single read() to get the response (with a buffer big enough to hold the entire response). - On a write() the command is simply "stored" into a kernel buffer, it is submitted as one operation on the subsequent read(). This allows to have the code write directly from the FIFO into the user buffer and avoid hogging the SBE between the write() and read() syscall as it's critical that the SBE be freed asap to respond to the host. An extra write() will simply replace the previously written command. - A write of a single 4 bytes containing the value 0x52534554 in big endian will trigger a reset request. No read is necessary, the write() call will return when the reset has been acknowledged or times out. - The command is limited to 4K bytes. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Tested-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au> ---
Linux kernel
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be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.