Re: [PATCH] [2.6] PPC64: log firmware errors during boot.

[Nathan Fontenot]

> I asked about this before, and was told that there is no way to
> determine the severity of an event without doing full parsing of the
> binary data. I'd be thrilled to be wrong...

Gettting the severity of an RTAS event is possible, and not too 
difficult.  Check out asm-ppc64/rtas.h for a definition of the
RTAS event header (struct rtas_error_log).  All RTAS events have the 
same initial header containing the severity of the event.

Decoding RTAS events beyond the intial header, that gets ugly quick and 
will hopefully never need to be done in the kernel.

--
Nathan Fontenot

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