Inband Update

[Lei YU]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 4:57 AM, Adriana Kobylak
<anoo at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi Jeremy, Vernon, Andrew, Joel, and anybody interested,
>
> I wanted to start this thread to discuss the implementation of inband
> update.

Patrick Venture has posted in-band BMC update over OEM IPMI commands via
PCI/LPC:
https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/#/c/9497/

Just FYI.

> At the face-to-face earlier this year, we were discussing to use a USB drive
> as the communication mechanism between the host and BMC.
>
> What would need to be the first step, is it to write a kernel driver,
> anybody doing related work, high-level requirements, ..., ?
>
> Thanks.
>