In-Band Firmware Update

[Patrick Venture]

Sorry, I haven't been on this email label recently -- accidentally fell behind.

In parallel to these efforts, I've started upstreaming a design:
https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/11588 -- feel free to make
comments.  I'm going to implement the design (it's already
implemented, but now I'm expanding it to address incoming comments).

Patrick

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 1:38 PM, Matt Spinler
<mspinler at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>