[PATCH] powerpc: Don't try OPAL takeover on old 970 blades
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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2011-09-29 06:51:52
Subsystem:
linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers:
Madhavan Srinivasan, Linus Torvalds
The firmware on old 970 blades supports some kind of takeover called "TNK takeover" which will crash if we try to probe for OPAL takeover, so don't do it. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> ---
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
index e96f5d0..b4fa661 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c@@ -1313,6 +1313,16 @@ static void prom_query_opal(void) { long rc; + /* We must not query for OPAL presence on a machine that + * supports TNK takeover (970 blades), as this uses the same + * h-call with different arguments and will crash + */ + if (PHANDLE_VALID(call_prom("finddevice", 1, 1, + ADDR("/tnk-memory-map")))) { + prom_printf("TNK takeover detected, skipping OPAL check\n"); + return; + } + prom_printf("Querying for OPAL presence... "); rc = opal_query_takeover(&RELOC(prom_opal_size), &RELOC(prom_opal_align));