Minor issue but, as noted in quoted section below I think it should be POWER9 and not POWER8.
This version of the document will cover all POWER89 systems. Please note that this document has a lot of low level details on the initialization of the POWER processor and it's memory subsystem. There are a lot of terms and details in here that are very IBM and POWER centric. We attempted to put as much in the glossary as possible but please feel free to use the mailing list for any questions.
Throughout the document you will see references to a “SP”. This stands for a service processor and when used it's applicable to either the FSP (Flexible Service Processor – used within IBM POWER based servers) or the BMC (the OpenPower service processor). For the most part we've tried to remove FSP specific references for the OpenPower work but some may still remain for reference in here.
Reading over the Hostboot Programmers guide (same document repo) is reccomended prior to reading this document.
This version of the document will cover the following systems:
IBM FSP based system
Witherspoon – IBM BMC based system
Zaius – BMC based OpenPOWER system
williamspatrick
commented
7 years ago
Minor issue but, as noted in quoted section below I think it should be POWER9 and not POWER8.
Page 2 of "P9 IPL Flow" document.