[Skiboot] [RFC] external/pflash: Change --bmc behaviour and add --direct

Joel Stanley joel at jms.id.au
Mon Jan 18 18:23:51 AEDT 2016


On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Cyril Bur <cyril.bur at au1.ibm.com> wrote:
> In order to preserve the current behavior of the --bmc a new flag --direct
> is called which will use the flash controller directly. This option now
> includes a large warning so as to prevent any accidental bricking.

I'm not all that keen on changing the meaning of --bmc.

If a user tries --bmc on a AMI BMC, could we look for a mtd device and
in that case suggest the user use --mtd?

Cheers,

Joel


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