[PATCH openbmc v6 00/18] Update flash update to be useable at runtime.

[Andrew Jeffery]

Hi Milton,

On Wed, 2016-06-22 at 19:30 -0500, OpenBMC Patches wrote:
> The underlying storage for a file system can not be updated when it is in use.  The initial solution was to update the flash as the system was being shutdown, with output to the console.
> 
> Updates were made to the init script that allows the flash to not be used for a given boot but the update script was not enhanced to make this user friendly, and no documentation was provided to prepare the system for this mode.
> 
> This series partially addresses #293 by enhancing the update script to
> 1. provide more fine grained checks on update conflicts allowing use at runtime
> 2. provide additional checks that would cause failure to flash
> 3. provide user help and consistent tagging of error output
> 4. provide an error return code if the checks fail
> 
> In addition the series provides
> * A fix to properly assemble the flash image, filling with `0xff` characters as intended.
> * A cleanup to the build recipe and naming.
> * A diagnostic message to shutdown if the update did not remove a file indicating it was successful.
> * A method to build `init-options-base` into the initramfs providing options to `init` while allowing additional sources of options like the kernel command line. 
> * A self containted image `initramfs-netboot.cpio.u-boot` for loading over the network.
> 
> These last two are intended to ease creating images for alternate network based deployment and testing, easing the use of the features and options already in the `init` script.
> 
> 
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> This change is [https://reviewable.io/review_button.svg" height="35" align="absmiddle" alt="Reviewable"/>](https://reviewable.io/reviews/openbmc/openbmc/297)
> 
> 
> 
> https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/pull/297
> 
> Brad Bishop (3):
>   Add pflash parallel build fix patch
>   Remove unnecessary skeleton dependencies
>   Removed unused host-ipmid-bt application
> 
> Milton D. Miller II (9):
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> Milton Miller (6):

Nit pick: Probably worth reconfiguring git to use a consistent user.name.

Cheers,

Andrew
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