[PATCH linux] dts: aspeed: merge initrd into kernel in flash layout

Joel Stanley joel at jms.id.au
Thu Feb 9 11:13:11 AEDT 2017


On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Xo Wang via openbmc
<openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Brad Bishop <bradleyb at fuzziesquirrel.com> wrote:
>> I’m not suggesting one way or the other as far as how to proceed but I don’t
>> think pulling chips is ever necessary.  You can always netboot and flash the
>> entire image image that way.
>>
>
> The hack we've been using for whole-image updates here on non-netboot
> BMCs is to use flashcp/dd of=mtdblock0/pflash to erase and program the
> BMC flash, then assert the hotswap reset GPIO.
>
> It saves a bit of time rebooting and is reliable, but feels dirty every time.

I was waiting for some more acks but it's been a week now so time is up.

I will merge this change today.

Cheers,

Joel


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