[OpenPower-Firmware] Infiniband network booting

[Stewart Smith]

> On 16 Apr 2020, at 10:23, Daniel M. Weeks <weeksd2 at rpi.edu> wrote:
> 
> On 4/16/20 1:18 PM, Stewart Smith wrote:
>> 
>>>> On 16 Apr 2020, at 09:52, Daniel M. Weeks <weeksd2 at rpi.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Second, although I would like to, I have no good to way to test forward
>>> porting these changes to recent branches until the there is a recent
>>> firmware build supporting the hardware I have available.
>> 
>> Current op-build master probably does work on your hardware still. What hardware is it?
>> 
>> I *think* it’s only P7 we ever ripped support out.
>> 
> 
> We have DD2.1 processors in the P9 systems. My current understanding is
> newer branches do not support (or have not been tested to support) those
> processors.

For some bits of firmware, that’s possibly true (I can’t actually recall, maybe some Hostboot people can chime in)

The BOOTKERNEL parts (the kernel and the petitboot userspace) should certainly still work, so you can build and then Just flash that one part of firmware.