From: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
To: xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux•vnet.ibm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>,
linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Cc: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung•com>,
Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo•fr>,
Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux•vnet.ibm.com>,
Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux•vnet.ibm.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>,
tglx@linutronix•de
Subject: Re: powerpc/nvram: Fix an incorrect partition merge
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 15:24:16 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn3dlgfz.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57550AB2.8090500@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux•vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>> Has it always been broken?
>>
>
> no. after nvram partition corruption hit, all nvram partitions will be
> erased and re-alloc after the second machine reboot.
> I don't know who does it but i guess it is the firmware. :)
It is. PAPR says we format NVRAM when it's corrupted. This is also true
for NVRAM for PowerNV (not just pseries guest).
--
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-07 5:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-10 7:30 [PATCH] powerpc/nvram: Fix an incorrect partition merge xinhui
2015-12-11 5:42 ` xinhui
2016-06-03 11:47 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-06-06 5:31 ` xinhui
2016-06-07 5:24 ` Stewart Smith [this message]
2016-06-07 11:39 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-06-13 6:40 ` xinhui
2016-09-20 13:07 ` Michael Ellerman
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