"Oliver O'Halloran" <ooh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 9:51 PM Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> wrote: >> Hari Bathini <hbath...@linux.ibm.com> writes: ... >> > diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst >> > b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst >> > index d912755..2c3342c 100644 >> > --- a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst >> > +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst >> > @@ -96,7 +97,9 @@ as follows: >> > >> > Please note that the firmware-assisted dump feature >> > is only available on Power6 and above systems with recent >> > -firmware versions. >> >> Notice how "recent" has bit rotted. >> >> > +firmware versions on PSeries (PowerVM) platform and Power9 >> > +and above systems with recent firmware versions on PowerNV >> > +(OPAL) platform. >> >> Can we say something more helpful here, ie. "recent" is not very useful. >> AFAIK it's actually wrong, there isn't a released firmware with the >> support yet at all, right? >> >> Given all the relevant firmware is open source can't we at least point >> to a commit or release tag or something? > > Even if we can quote a git sha it's not terrible useful or user > friendly. We already gate the feature behind DT nodes / properties > existing, so why not just say "fadump requires XYZ firmware feature, > as indicated by <ABC> device-tree property."
But how does that help someone who's got a Talos/Blackbird and wants to test this stuff? cheers