Kernel-4.18.0-80.el8_ibm,vas

  • IBM Powerpc Virtual Accelerator Switchboard (VAS)

VAS is a hardware mechanism that allows kernel subsystems and user processes
to directly submit compression and other requests to Nest accelerators (NX)
or other coprocessors functions.

Required properties:

  • compatible : should be “ibm,vas”.
  • ibm,vas-id : A unique identifier for each instance of VAS in the system
  • reg : Should contain 4 pairs of 64-bit fields specifying the Hypervisor
    window context start and length, OS/User window context start and length,
    “Paste address” start and length, “Paste window id” start bit and number
    of bits)

Example:

vas@6019100000000 {
    compatible = "ibm,vas", "ibm,power9-vas";
    reg = <0x6019100000000 0x2000000 0x6019000000000 0x100000000 0x8000000000000 0x100000000 0x20 0x10>;
    name = "vas";
    ibm,vas-id = <0x1>;
};