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+/**
+ * Copyright © 2017 IBM Corporation
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+#include <phosphor-logging/log.hpp>
+#include "cfam_access.hpp"
+#include "p9_cfam.hpp"
+#include "targeting.hpp"
+
+namespace openpower
+{
+namespace p9
+{
+
+using namespace phosphor::logging;
+using namespace openpower::cfam::access;
+using namespace openpower::cfam::p9;
+using namespace openpower::targeting;
+
+
+/**
+ * @brief Starts the self boot engine on P9 position 0 to kick off a boot.
+ * @return void
+ */
+void startHost()
+{
+    Targeting targets;
+    const auto& master = *(targets.begin());
+
+    log<level::INFO>("Running P9 procedure startHost",
+                     entry("NUM_PROCS=%d", targets.size()));
+
+    //Ensure asynchronous clock mode is set
+    writeReg(master, P9_LL_MODE_REG, 0x00000001);
+
+    //Clock mux select override
+    for (const auto& t : targets)
+    {
+        writeRegWithMask(t, P9_ROOT_CTRL8,
+                         0x0000000C, 0x0000000C);
+    }
+
+    //Enable P9 checkstop to be reported to the BMC
+
+    //Setup FSI2PIB to report checkstop
+    writeReg(master, P9_FSI_A_SI1S, 0x20000000);
+
+    //Enable Xstop/ATTN interrupt
+    writeReg(master, P9_FSI2PIB_TRUE_MASK, 0x60000000);
+
+    //Arm it
+    writeReg(master, P9_FSI2PIB_INTERRUPT, 0xFFFFFFFF);
+
+    //Kick off the SBE to start the boot
+
+    //First ensure ISTEP stepping isn't enabled
+    writeReg(master, P9_SCRATCH_REGISTER_8, 0x20000000);
+
+    //Start the SBE
+    writeRegWithMask(master, P9_CBS_CS, 0x80000000, 0x80000000);
+}
+
+
+}
+}
+