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authorStewart Smith <stewart@linux.ibm.com>2018-04-03 14:57:56 +1000
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doc: Document ibm,heartbeat-ms
and by 'document', I mean 'gather a few extra minor bits of breadcrumbs of clues as to what, when and why this thing exists'. Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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@@ -50,3 +50,24 @@ Top level ibm,opal node
opal-runtime-size = <0x0 0x9a00000>;
phandle = <0x10000003>;
};
+
+.. ibm-heartbeat-ms:
+
+ibm,heartbeat-ms
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+.. code-block:: dts
+
+ ibm,opal {
+ ibm,heartbeat-ms = <0x7d0>;
+ }
+
+
+Any OS targetting POWER9 processors *must* respect `ibm,heartbeat-ms`.
+
+Linux kernels prior to v4.1-rc1 would ignore `ibm,heartbeat-ms`. These only
+supported POWER8 systems.
+
+On the earliest POWER8 OPAL systems, there was `ibm,heartbeat-freq` instead.
+However, no OS at the time ever looked at that value, so it can be ignored
+by any new operating systems.
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