[Skiboot] [PATCH 3/3] external/gard: Recover the entire gard partition

Samuel Mendoza-Jonas sam.mj at au1.ibm.com
Fri Sep 4 10:33:47 AEST 2015


On 03/09/15 17:47, Cyril Bur wrote:
> If the gard tool detects that the GUARD partition has been corrupted it has
> logic to attempt to recover the GUARD partition in a best effort attempt to
> leave the GUARD partition in a state that will allow the machine to boot.
> 
> It has come to light that Hostboot is more sensitive to what must be in the
> GUARD partition in order to be able to bring a machine up, as such, the
> gard tool will now fill the entire partition with all 1's and ECC bytes, not
> simply the first record as it currently does
> 
> 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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