Linux on Power Architecture Reference System Software Work Group syssw-chair@openpowerfoundation.org OpenPOWER Foundation 2016 OpenPOWER Foundation Revision 2.0_pre1 OpenPOWER Copyright details are filled in by the template. The purpose of this document is to provide firmware and software architectural details for the base Platform hardware associated with an OpenPOWER Systems. The base content for this document were contributed to the OpenPOWER Foundation in the IBM Linux on Power Architecture Platform Reference (LoPAPR) Draft document. It had numerous contributors inside IBM. This document is a Standard Track, Work Group Specification work product owned by the System Software Workgroup and handled in compliance with the requirements outlined in the OpenPOWER Foundation Work Group (WG) Process document. It was created using the Master Template Guide version 0.9.5. Comments, questions, etc. can be submitted to the public mailing list for this document at TBD. 2017-05-18 Revision 2.0_pre1 - initial conversion from IBM document. Extracted from Linux on Power Architecture Platform Reference (LoPAPR) version 1.1 dated March 24, 2016 -- Chapter 14 (Logical Partitioning Option), Chapter 13 (Dynamic Reconfiguration Option), Chapter 17 (Virtualized Input/Output), Appendix A (SPLPAR Characteristics Definitions), Appendix D (A Protocol for a Virtual TTY Interface), Appendix E (A Protocol for VSCSI Communications), Appendix F (A Protocol for VMC Communications), Appendix J (Platform Dependent hcalls), and Appendix K (A Protocol for VNIC Communications)