Bios upgrade from BMC

Wed Jan 22 05:56:53 AEDT 2020

On 1/20/20, 10:54 PM, "Neeraj Ladkani" <neladk at microsoft.com> wrote:

    Vijay, 

    - How are you able to determine flash ranges used by UEFI in case we may not want to update ME but only UEFI regions?  
I am not defining any range in flash. Currently it is just going to use flashcp command to flash image. I can accept this final stage of flashing as system unit file or command through config option.

    - How is this interfaced from redfish/IPMI ? 
It will interface same as BMC upgrade. Considering redfish/IPMI only, I am considering this this as a part of same image updater.

    Is there any design document for this feature that we can review? 
No, There is no design document just below steps and wanted to check if it is a common sequence everyone use or we need some flexibility.

    Neeraj

    From: openbmc <openbmc-bounces+neladk=microsoft.com at lists.ozlabs.org> On Behalf Of Lawniczak, Maciej
    Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2020 11:35 PM
    To: CS20 CTCchien <CTCCHIEN at nuvoton.com>; openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org; Vijay Khemka <vijaykhemka at fb.com>
    Subject: [EXTERNAL] RE: Bios upgrade from BMC

    Hi Medad,

    To set up ME in Recovery mode use IPMI command “Force ME Recovery” – DFh (byte4=01h)
    To set up ME in Operational again use IPMI “Cold Reset” command” – 02h

    For more details check: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com_-3Furl-3Dhttps-253A-252F-252Fwww.intel.com-252Fcontent-252Fdam-252Fwww-252Fpublic-252Fus-252Fen-252Fdocuments-252Ftechnical-2Dspecifications-252Fintel-2Dpower-2Dnode-2Dmanager-2Dv3-2Dspec.pdf-26data-3D02-257C01-257Cneladk-2540microsoft.com-257Cadc15cf0148e432110b508d79d7b6a38-257C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47-257C1-257C0-257C637151026289126945-26sdata-3D2TLHwCsXMK2vg-252FfBMrKIPyNoPUG52RjYq33prp9xpsc-253D-26reserved-3D0&d=DwIGaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=v9MU0Ki9pWnTXCWwjHPVgpnCR80vXkkcrIaqU7USl5g&m=5Pb3J8Ryu1wP_3jCzVlxAbutqUd0mniJjRC5jlcl0mg&s=e4TQhEF7P9P3pjD1qc8cZ4G4_gqi-yAiGee9pTHUuNs&e= 

    Regards,
    Maciej
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    Hi Vijay,

    I try to upgrade BIOS from BMC, but I do not know how to set the mode of  ME/NM.
    Can you share the process how you set ME/NM to recovery mode and operation mode?

    Thanks.

    B.R.
    Medad

    From: Vijay Khemka <mailto:vijaykhemka at fb.com>
    To: OpenBMC Maillist <mailto:openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org>
    Subject: Bios upgrade from BMC

    Hi,
    I am writing an application for Bios upgrade. Currently I have created a hook to our bmc updater which expects a systemd unit file to be run at the time of activating update. But I am thinking of adding some of this unit file functionality in updater itself and wanted to run by you all if it is common procedure used by every platform. Below are the process we use in our platform as a part of bios upgrade.

    1. Power off host server.
    2. Set ME/NM (Management engine or Node manager in x86) to recovery mode
    3. Flip GPIO to access SPI flash used by host.
    4. Bind spi driver to access flash
    5. Flashcp image to device.
    6. Unbind spi driver
    7. Flip GPIO back for host to access SPI flash
    8. Set ME/NM to operational mode
    9. Power on server.

    I can have some flexibility in this sequence based on each platform configuration. Looking forward to your suggestions.

    Regards
    -Vijay
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