ppc64el Opal firmware support

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I see these patches are upstream as of 3.16-rc1. However, they don't seem to have been cc'd to upstream stable. Do you happen to know if they will be submitted for inclusion in upstream stable?

Ram, Breno - Against what repo and branch do these patches apply ? They certainly don't apply cleanly to Trusty master or master-next. I also end up with build issues after I drop the patches that collide (i.e., those patches that are already in the Trusty master/master-next). For example, there is no rule to build opal-sysparam.o and that makes me nervous that I don't have the right patch set.

The above 1 to 15 patches should cleanly apply to the next tree. 3 of the original patches are already in the next tree. So it just boils down to 15 outstanding patches.

It is customary to actually build a patch set before submitting it for review. Nor is there any evidence that this has had any testing.

make[4]: *** No rule to make target `arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-sysparam.o', needed by `arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/built-in.o'. Stop.
make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

 just compile and boot tested on pseries environment. and not compile and boot tested on powernv (risk assumed) since a larger set of 118 backported patches were compile/boot tested on powernv by someone having access to that environment.

my apologies. will find someone to compile/boot test on powernv, hopefully by the deadline.

a) patches cleanly apply to the next tree
b) code cleanly compiles for powernv architecture and for pseries architecture
c) boot tested on pseries and powernv
d) some basic RAS tools testing on powernv passed.

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This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.13.0-32.57

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linux (3.13.0-32.57) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * l2tp: Privilege escalation in ppp over l2tp sockets
    - LP: #1341472
    - CVE-2014-4943

linux (3.13.0-32.56) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Luis Henriques ]

  * Merged back Ubuntu-3.13.0-30.55 security release
  * Revert "x86_64,ptrace: Enforce RIP <= TASK_SIZE_MAX (CVE-2014-4699)"
    - LP: #1337339
  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1338524

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * ptrace,x86: force IRET path after a ptrace_stop()
    - LP: #1337339
    - CVE-2014-4699
  * hpsa: add new Smart Array PCI IDs (May 2014)
    - LP: #1337516

linux (3.13.0-31.55) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Luis Henriques ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1336278

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * [Config] switch hyper-keyboard to virtual
    - LP: #1325306
  * [Packaging] linux-udeb-flavour -- standardise on linux prefix

  [ dann frazier ]

  * [Config] CONFIG_GPIO_DWAPB=m
    - LP: #1334823

  [ Feng Kan ]

  * SAUCE: (no-up) arm64: dts: Add Designware GPIO dts binding to APM
    X-Gene platform
    - LP: #1334823

  [ John Johansen ]

  * SAUCE: (no-up) apparmor: fix apparmor spams log with warning message
    - LP: #1308761

  [ Kamal Mostafa ]

  * [Config] updateconfigs ACPI_PROCFS_POWER=y after v3.13.11.4 rebase

  [ Loc Ho ]

  * SAUCE: (no-up) phy-xgene: Use correct tuning for Mustang
    - LP: #1335636

  [ Michael Ellerman ]

  * SAUCE: (no-up) powerpc/perf: Ensure all EBB register state is cleared
    on fork()
    - LP: #1328914

  [ Ming Lei ]

  * Revert "SAUCE: (no-up) rtc: Add X-Gene SoC Real Time Clock Driver"
    - LP: #1274305

  [ Suman Tripathi ]

  * SAUCE: (no-up) libahci: Implement the function ahci_restart_engine to
    restart the port dma engine.
    - LP: #1335645
  * SAUCE: (no-up) ata: Fix the dma state machine lockup for the IDENTIFY
    DEVICE PIO mode command.
    - LP: #1335645

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * [Config] CONFIG_POWERNV_CPUFREQ=y for powerpc, ppc64el
    - LP: #1324571
  * [Debian] Add UTS_UBUNTU_RELEASE_ABI to utsrelease.h
    - LP: #1327619
  * [Config] CONFIG_HAVE_MEMORYLESS_NODES=y
    - LP: #1332063
  * [Config] CONFIG_HID_RMI=m
    - LP: #1305522

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Revert "offb: Add palette hack for little endian"
    - LP: #1333430
  * Revert "net: mvneta: fix usage as a module on RGMII configurations"
    - LP: #1333837
  * Revert "USB: serial: add usbid for dell wwan card to sierra.c"
    - LP: #1333837
  * Revert "macvlan : fix checksums error when we are in bridge mode"
    - LP: #1333838
  * serial: uart: add hw flow control support configuration
    - LP: #1328295
  * mm/numa: Remove BUG_ON() in __handle_mm_fault()
    - LP: #1323165
  * Tools: hv: Handle the case when the target file exists correctly
    - LP: #1306215
  * Documentation/devicetree/bindings: add documentation for the APM X-Gene
    SoC RTC DTS binding
    - LP: #1274305
  * drivers/rtc: add APM X-Gene SoC RTC driver
    - LP: #1274305
  * arm64: add APM X-Gene SoC RTC DTS entry
    - LP: #1274305
  * powerpc/perf: Add Power8 cache & TLB events
    - LP: #1328914
  * powerpc/perf: Configure BH...