In-Band Firmware Update

[Matt Spinler]

On 2018-07-23 19:13, Sai Dasari wrote:

> Any thoughts on reusing/leveraging the PICMG's hpm spec @
> https://www.picmg.org/openstandards/hardware-platform-management/ .
> One of the benefit would be the standard 'ipmitool' has native support
> for the update and changes are limited to BMC f/w.
> On a downside, the firmware binary has to be repackaged as .hpm format
> for this protocol to do some preparation steps as it support multiple
> f/w components in a single package.

This was brought up a few months ago and decided against:
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2017-November/009938.html

We are going to investigate using the DFU protocol, as that
also has host side tools already available.


> 
>     --Vernon