Static layout PNOR support in openpower-pnor-code-mgmt

[Samuel Mendoza-Jonas]

On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 11:18 +1100, Stewart Smith wrote:
> Lei YU <mine260309 at gmail.com> writes:
> > As a follow up of [VPNOR discussion][1], the static layout PNOR
> > support in openpower-pnor-code-mgmt is implemented and pushed to gerrit
> > starting from https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/#/c/openbmc/openpower-pnor-code-mgmt/+/18747/
> > 
> > Code reviews and tests are welcome.
> > 
> > To test the feature:
> > 1. Pick the above gerrit commits and build with --disable-ubifs_layout
> > 2. Generate pnor in static.tar.gz format, by below command:
> >     ./generate-squashfs <xxx.pnor>   # xxx.pnor.static.tar.gz will be
> > generated
> 
> Is this a new format? Why? Where is it documented?
> 

Looking on gerrit this just appears to be the PNOR and a MANIFEST file in
a tarball. Considering it's just a call to 'tar', having it be generated
by something called 'generate-squashfs' is confusing. I guess this is
because generate-squashfs creates the MANIFEST file?