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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!--
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Copyright (c) 2016, 2020 OpenPOWER Foundation
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Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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You may obtain a copy of the License at
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http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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limitations under the License.
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-->
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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="sec_rtas_error_reporting_intro">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>This section describes the data formats used to report events and
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errors from RTAS to the OS. A common format is used for errors and events
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to simplify software both in RTAS and in the OS. Both errors and events
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may have been analyzed to some degree by RTAS, and value judgments may
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have been applied to decide how serious an error is, or even how to
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describe it to the OS. These judgments are made by platform providers,
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since only they know enough about the hardware to decide how serious a
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problem it is, whether and how to recover from it, and how to map it onto
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the abstracted set of events and errors that a system is required to know
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about. There will be cases with some platforms where no reasonable
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mapping exists, and platform features may not be fully supported by the
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OS. In such cases, error reports may also be non-specific, leaving
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platform-specific details to platform-aware software.</para>
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</section>
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