Re: [PATCH v8 00/10] Enable VAS

2017-09-07 Thread Michael Neuling
So this is upstream now but it will cause a crash on boot with older skiboots with: powernv-cpufreq: cpufreq pstate min 101 nominal 50 max 0 powernv-cpufreq: Workload Optimized Frequency is enabled in the platform Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint Severe Machine check interrupt [Not re

[PATCH v8 00/10] Enable VAS

2017-08-28 Thread Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Power9 introduces a hardware subsystem referred to as the Virtual Accelerator Switchboard (VAS). VAS allows kernel subsystems and user space processes to directly access the Nest Accelerator (NX) engines which implement compression and encryption algorithms in the hardware. NX has been in Power pr