powerpc/prom_init: Pass linux_banner to firmware via option vector 7
Pass the value of linux_banner to firmware via option vector 7. Option vector 7 is described in "LoPAR" Linux on Power Architecture Reference v2.9, in table B.7 on page 824: An ASCII character formatted null terminated string that describes the client operating system. The string shall be human readable and may be displayed on the console. The string can be up to 256 bytes total, including the nul terminator. linux_banner contains lots of information, and should make it possible to identify the exact kernel version that is running: const char linux_banner[] = "Linux version " UTS_RELEASE " (" LINUX_COMPILE_BY "@" LINUX_COMPILE_HOST ") (" LINUX_COMPILER ") " UTS_VERSION "\n"; For example: Linux version 4.15.0-144-generic (buildd@bos02-ppc64el-018) (gcc version 7.5.0 (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04)) #148-Ubuntu SMP Sat May 8 02:32:13 UTC 2021 (Ubuntu 4.15.0-144.148-generic 4.15.18) It's also printed at boot to the console/dmesg, which should make it possible to correlate what firmware receives with the console/dmesg on the machine. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210621064938.2021419-2-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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