[Skiboot] [PATCH 0/7] Abstract architectures for external tools

[Cyril Bur]

On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:29:10 +1000
Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Cyril Bur <cyril.bur at au1.ibm.com> writes:
> > Over the course of development and improvement of the tools kept within the
> > skiboot repository it has become clear that the external tools could be run
> > on something other than POWER (or ARM for BMC related tools). There is no
> > fundamental reason why this is not possible, it is quite simple, however
> > the difficulty was abstracting away the details of each architecture so that
> > something generic could exist, the external tools which tried this
> > independently were duplicating a lot of effort.
> >
> > Important considerations were:
> > When running on a BMC pflash should be able to flash both the host and the
> > BMC flash. The gard tool hasn't been updated to run on the BMC, I'm not
> > sure it will need to be.
> > When running on POWER pflash should be able to flash using the MTD device
> > (and not the lpc) interface in order to limit the chance of concurrent
> > access. The gard tool on POWER should be able to perform all its function
> > including clearing gard records.
> > On x86 both the pflash and the gard tool should still perform most of their
> > functions, parsing, showing, modifying but with files on disk.
> >
> > Cyril Bur (7):
> >   libflash: Return a pointer to internal structure.
> >   libflash: Reintroduce typesafety in lowlevel libflash calls
> >   external/common: Create common code for initialising libflash
> >     components
> >   external/common: Add POWERPC code reenable building pflash for POWER
> >   external/common: Add x86 code reenable building pflash
> >   external/pflash: Update distclean make target
> >   external/common: Write an includeable rules.mk.
> 
> Something in this series seems to break 'make dist' for pflash.

Damn, sorry Stewart, I'll send new version.

Cyril