[Skiboot] [PATCH 2/3] external/gard: Update record clearing to match Hostboots expectations

Samuel Mendoza-Jonas sam.mj at au1.ibm.com
Fri Sep 4 10:30:52 AEST 2015


On 03/09/15 17:47, Cyril Bur wrote:
> When the gard tool is told to clear all the gard records it actually erases
> the entire flash and inserts ECC bytes only for the size of the first gard
> record.
> 
> The current method appears to have stopped working, Hostboot expects the
> entire partition to have ECC bytes throughout the entire partition, and as
> such the current method causes Hostboot to error and be unable to bring up
> machines.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur at au1.ibm.com>
>

Reviewed-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam.mj at au1.ibm.com>

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