Clarify some questions about host tool (burn_my_bmc)

[Patrick Venture]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 2:43 AM Andrew MS1 Peng <pengms1 at lenovo.com> wrote:
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> 1.      It took about 4 minutes and 30 seconds for BIOS update with 64MB rom image. Could we extension the pollstatus time from 100 sec to 300 sec to get the final status?

I'm curious why it's harmful to check more frequently?

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> 2.      If user can choose to preserve BMC configuration (rw area) or BIOS configuration when upgrade firmware, do you have any suggestions with regards to preserve configuration implementation or could the host tool support to send a parameter to support it?

Since one of the design goals was to keep the interface from the host
simple, and mostly agonistic to what was taking place, consideration
wasn't given for a mechanism for adding extra parameters.  We're in a
similar boat where we want a mechanism for changing the level of
upgrade, so I'll go over the design today at some point and see
whether we can do it agnostically.

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> Regards,
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> Andrew
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