<span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">Hi All,</span><br><br><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">We are planning
to port UUID synching related code from current python script: <b>openbmc/skeleton/pyinventorymgr/sync_inventory_items.py</b>to new bash script.</span><br><br><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">The current py(invoked
by systemd on the way to BMC ready state) is doing below given actions
to sync BMC's UUID to U-Boot environment.</span><br><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">1. Getting the
UUID from inventory.</span><br><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">2. Getting the
UUID from U-boot environment</span><br><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">3. If the both
are differing, write the UUID form inventory to U-Boot environment.</span><br><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">4. It also it
has TODO task to reboot the BMC to make sure UUID from U-Boot env to sync
with /etc/machine-id.</span><br><br><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">But this script
is in broken state now: It is not updating UUID in U-boot env by reading
it from inventory.</span><br><br><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">We have few things
to understand here:</span><br><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">1. Is there a
need to write UUID to U-Boot environment?</span><br><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">2. Can machine-id
be the source for UUID? or UUID is the source for machine-id?</span><br><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">3. If UUID (from
inventory) is the source for machine-id, from where should the inventory
get UUID? (on openpower systems the UUID is fetched from BMC VPD,
if present)</span><br><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">4. If machine-id
is the source to UUID, how machine-id is getting its value?</span><br><br><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">We need an inputs
from community members who are having better understand on these things.</span><br><br><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">Best Regards,</span><br><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">Nagaraju G</span><BR>