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

[Stewart Smith]

Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam at mendozajonas.com> writes:
> 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?

Yeah, that sounds odd. The current format is just the pnor file.


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Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.