phosphor-ipmi-flash: A problem in BMC FW update over LPC

[Patrick Venture]

On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 8:02 PM CS20 CTCchien <CTCCHIEN at nuvoton.com> wrote:
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> Hi Patrick,
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> I use latest phosphor-ipmi-flash, and I met an error about /flash/image in bmc/config-static-bmc-reboot.json.in,
> I change it to /flash/static, then the issue disappeared.
> Did I miss something?

The name of the thing in the json file is the type to use now with the
"--type" parameter, not the whole name, just the ending.  So
/flash/static becomes --type static, and /flash/image becomes --type
image

It was a change related to needing to support arbitrary update targets.
>
> Thanks
>
> B.R.
> Medad
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Venture <venture at google.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2019 10:43 PM
> To: CS20 KWLiu <KWLIU at nuvoton.com>; Benjamin Fair <benjaminfair at google.com>
> Cc: CS20 CTCchien <CTCCHIEN at nuvoton.com>; Corey Chen (陳志銘) <Corey.Chen at quantatw.com>; Fran Hsu (徐誌謙) <Fran.Hsu at quantatw.com>; Samuel Jiang (江騏先) <Samuel.Jiang at quantatw.com>; George Hung (洪忠敬) <George.Hung at quantatw.com>; openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: phosphor-ipmi-flash: A problem in BMC FW update over LPC
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> On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 4:13 AM CS20 KWLiu <KWLIU at nuvoton.com> wrote:
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> > Hello Patrick:
> >
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> > We are currently trying to enable the BMC FW update over LPC on our platform (nuvoton BMC), but we encounter a problem with BIOS.
> > The BIOS engineer has reserved memory region as mmio space, but we couldn't see any data change in this region during run burn_my_bmc.
> > We have checked the BMC setting(in lpc_nuvoton.c and LDN SHM) but we couldn't identify the root cause of this problem.
>
> +Benjamin Fair
>
> I don't know the Nuvoton BMC that well, but I do know that I tested it on a system we have that uses it.  I'm adding Benjamin as he's more familiar with any nuances associated with Nuvoton's BMC.
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> > Is there any settings we lost?
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> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Joseph
> >
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