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Hi Nick,

Have you posted out the kernel side of "opal v4" patchset?
I could only find the opal patchset.

Thanks,
Abhishek

On 04/28/2020 06:38 AM, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Thanks for picking this up and pushing it along. I do plan to come back
> and take another look at it all, but what we do need to do first is get
> a coherent approach to this proposed new calling convention and OS ops.
>
> It's fine to work on this in the meantime, but to start merging things
> my idea is:
>
> - OPAL must leave r13-r15 untouched for the OS.
> - OS ops are made available only for a "v4" OS that uses the new
>    calling convention, including kernel stack.
> - OS ops baseline (all OSes must provide) will be console / printk
>    facility, trap handling and crash/symbol decoding on behalf of OPAL,
>    and runtime virtual memory.
>
> Other OS ops features can be added in the versioned structure, including
> this.
>
> I'm trying to get back to cleaning these things up and start getting
> them merged now. Any comments or review on those would be helpful.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>