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SBE (Self Boot Engine) on P9 has two different jobs: - Boot the chip up to the point the core is functional - Provide various services like timer, scom, stash MPIPL, etc., at runtime OPAL can communicate to SBE via a set of data and control registers provided by the PSU block in P9 chip. - Four 8 byte registers for Host to send command packets to SBE - Four 8 byte registers for SBE to send response packets to Host - Two doorbell registers (1 on each side) to alert either party when data is placed in above mentioned data register Protocol constraints: Only one command is accepted in the command buffer until the response for the command is enqueued in the response buffer by SBE. Usage: We will use SBE for various purposes like timer, MPIPL, etc. This patch implements the SBE MBOX spec for OPAL to communicate with SBE. Design consideration: - Each chip has SBE. We need to track SBE messages per chip. Hence added per chip sbe structure and list of messages to that chip - SBE accepts only one command at a time. Hence serialized MBOX commands. - OPAL gets interrupted once SBE sets doorbell register - OPAL has to clear doorbell register after reading response - Every command class has timeout option. Timed out messages are discarded - SBE MBOX commands can be classified into four types : - Those that must be sent to the master only (ex: sending MDST/MDDT info) - Those that must be sent to slaves only (ex: continue MPIPL) - Those that must be sent to all chips (ex: close insecure window) - Those that can be sent to any chip (ex: timer) Signed-off-by: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.ibm.com>
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