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doc: Document ibm,heartbeat-ms
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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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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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