[Skiboot] [PATCH] IPMI: Fix eSEL size

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Aug 11 14:21:59 AEST 2015


Patrick Williams III <iawillia at us.ibm.com> writes:
> I believe FSP PELs can be up to 64k.

While there's nothing in the PEL spec that I've seen that has any limit,
everything assumes 16k (even i5 OS), so in practice, it's part of the
spec.

> I also believe the BMC code has a limit for the eSEL content to only be 2k.
> Hostboot truncates our PEL content to the eSEL limit when we send it to the
> BMC.

Can opal-elog-parse still parse things okay with a truncated PEL?



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