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Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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skiboot-5.9.2
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skiboot 5.9.2 was released on Thursday November 16th, 2017. It replaces
:ref:`skiboot-5.9.1` as the current stable release in the 5.9.x series.

Over :ref:`skiboot-5.9.1`, we have a few PHB4 (PCI) fixes, an i2c fix for
POWER9 platforms to avoid conflicting with the OCC use and an important
NPU2 (NVLink2) fix.

- phb4: Fix lane equalisation setting

Fix cut and paste from phb3. The sizes have changes now we have GEN4,
so the check here needs to change also

Without this we end up with the default settings (all '7') rather
than what's in HDAT.

- phb4: Fix PE mapping of M32 BAR

The M32 BAR is the PHB4 region used to map all the non-prefetchable
or 32-bit device BARs. It's supposed to have its segments remapped
via the MDT and Linux relies on that to assign them individual PE#.

However, we weren't configuring that properly and instead used the
mode where PE# == segment#, thus causing EEH to freeze the wrong
device or PE#.
- phb4: Fix lost bit in PE number on config accesses

A PE number can be up to 9 bits, using a uint8_t won't fly..

That was causing error on config accesses to freeze the
wrong PE.
- phb4: Update inits

New init value from HW folks for the fence enable register.

This clears bit 17 (CFG Write Error CA or UR response) and bit 22 (MMIO Write
DAT_ERR Indication) and sets bit 21 (MMIO CFG Pending Error)
- npu2: Move to new GPU memory map

There are three different ways we configure the MCD and memory map.

1) Old way (current way)
Skiboot configures the MCD and puts GPUs at 4TB and below
2) New way with MCD
Hostboot configures the MCD and skiboot puts GPU at 4TB and above
3) New way without MCD
No one configures the MCD and skiboot puts GPU at 4TB and below

The change keeps option 1 and adds options 2 and 3.

The different configurations are detected using certain scoms (see
patch).

Option 1 will go away eventually as it's a configuration that can
cause xstops or data integrity problems. We are keeping it around to
support existing hostboot.

Option 2 supports only 4 GPUs and 512GB of memory per socket.

Option 3 supports 6 GPUs and 4TB of memory but may have some
performance impact.

- p8-i2c: Don't write the watermark register at init

On P9 the I2C master is shared with the OCC. Currently the watermark
values are set once at init time which is bad for two reasons:

a) We don't take the OCC master lock before setting it. Which
may cause issues if the OCC is currently using the master.
b) The OCC might change the watermark levels and we need to reset
them.

Change this so that we set the watermark value when a new transaction
is started rather than at init time.

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