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powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL NVRAM driver
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Authored by jhibbits on Sep 13 2019, 3:11 AM.
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Add a very basic OPAL NVRAM driver, which can be used by the IBM
power-utils toolkit for reading and writing NVRAM on powernv systems.

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LGTM.

sys/powerpc/powernv/opal_nvram.c
148

Isn't a NULL check of contigmalloc() return value needed here?

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 13 2019, 7:47 PM
sys/powerpc/powernv/opal_nvram.c
148

You're right. Even though I specify M_WAITOK, from code inspection it only allows me 3 retries before it gives up and returns NULL.