Deb McLemore

Moving this to -> https://github.ibm.com/open-power/opal-project-mgmt/issues/61 I think this one can be closed and we can track under the opal-project-mgmt issue.

> Tracking here Ok, please assign to me (it would not allow me).

Subject: libflash API: Add 'Prepare' call to allow asynchronous behaviour We need to be able to perform asynchronous flash operations across the various backends. Suggestions to look at: 1 -...

> updates Working async tree -> https://github.com/debmc/skiboot/tree/async Prototype testing is looking good, need to circle back and review with current prototype implementation if the goals are achieved across the backends.

``` hiomap: Enable Async IPMI messaging To provide higher layer async operations to access the target flash, enable hiomap to perform async ipmi messaging (post boot). Special considerations and constraints...

Refreshed the async tree -> https://github.com/debmc/skiboot/tree/async Tests look good, may be worth some review if anyone has some time. Outstanding work is to circle back on error path testing.

> the protocol only supports one active window and all operations against that window should to be serialised, so there should not currently be a case where multiple messages are...

Refreshed the async tree -> https://github.com/debmc/skiboot/tree/async Still need to do some more testing and regression testing.

Sent patch series to skiboot mailing list: [Skiboot] [PATCH 00/12] ipmi-hiomap: Enablement for Async opal_flash_op's https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/skiboot/2019-October/015624.html

Adding cross reference -> https://bugzilla.linux.ibm.com/show_bug.cgi?id=165960