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------- Comment From hegdevasant at in.ibm.com 2017-03-28 12:29 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #32)
> > We ended up submitting different patch to upstream. I think we can drop Jeremy's patch and pull upstream one.
>
> > Upstream patch for fw version :
>
> > commit 3abc9878e862d3401f2e5b3eb9e507f10bad7e2e
> > Author: Jack Miller <jack at codezen.org>
> > Date: Tue Aug 23 15:18:47 2016 -0500
>
> > devtree: Add parsed firmware version info
>
> Are you sure that these two commits are equivalent?  The one you reference
> doesn't look at /ibm,opal at all.

Ok.. Initially we added firmware version under /ibm,opal node under
DT... but later it was changed to /ibm,firmware-versions.

Hence it safe to remove Jeremy's original patch and use upstream patch.

-Vasant

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Title:
  lshw package update - ppc64le

Status in lshw package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  lshw package update for ppc64le in Ubuntu 17.04

  lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed information
  on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact
  memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU
  version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable
  x86 or EFI (IA-64) systems and on some PowerPC machines

  This FEAT is mostly to push any Power specific issues and validation
  purpose.

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