Implement a tool of flashing EEPROM to update the VPD data

[Santosh Puranik]

Hi,

On 5/21/20 3:40 PM, Andy_YF_Wang at wistron.com wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I plan to implement a tool of flashing EEPROM to update the VPD 
> data(MAC, BMC's PartNumber, BMC's SerialNumber and BMC's PrettyName) 
> recently.
>
> Then I didn’t find a similar tool or module on the existing 
> respository of openbmc.
>
> So can I create a new respository to implement this tool?
>
> Or does anyone have any other better comments or suggestions?
>
Which VPD format are you interested in updating? Assuming you are using 
the OpenPower VPD format,
there is a tool being implemented in the series of patches here:
https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/openpower-vpd-parser/+/30239
That can currently handle OpenPower and IBM format VPD and relies on the 
VPD being represented as
D-Bus objects, but we'd be happy to see that getting extended to just 
doing EEPROM writes.
--
Santosh
>
> Thanks!
>
> Andy YF Wang
>
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