[Skiboot] [PATCH 1/2] pflash: add support for manipulating file rather than flash

Cyril Bur cyril.bur at au1.ibm.com
Wed May 18 09:55:20 AEST 2016


On Tue, 17 May 2016 13:57:06 +1000
Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Add command line parameters for passing into libflash to have
> pflash manipulate a file rather than flash.
> 
> This is useful for testing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks Stewart. I've got one sitting around with the libffs rework but I'm
assuming you're doing this to improve testing and that you've tested, thanks
again!!

Reviewed-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur at au1.ibm.com>

> ---
>  external/pflash/pflash.c | 11 +++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/external/pflash/pflash.c b/external/pflash/pflash.c
> index da7d7f5..fddfe1d 100644
> --- a/external/pflash/pflash.c
> +++ b/external/pflash/pflash.c
> @@ -461,6 +461,8 @@ static void print_help(const char *pname)
>  	printf("\t\tTarget BMC flash instead of host flash.\n");
>  	printf("\t\tNote: This carries a high chance of bricking your BMC if you\n");
>  	printf("\t\tdon't know what you're doing. Consider --mtd to be safe(r)\n\n");
> +	printf("\t-F filename, --flash-file filename\n");
> +	printf("\t\tTarget filename instead of actual flash.\n\n");
>  	printf("\t-S, --side\n");
>  	printf("\t\tSide of the flash on which to operate, 0 (default) or 1\n\n");
>  	printf("\t-T, --toc\n");
> @@ -527,6 +529,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>  	char *write_file = NULL, *read_file = NULL, *part_name = NULL;
>  	bool ffs_toc_seen = false, mtd = false;
>  	int rc;
> +	const char *flashfilename = NULL;
>  
>  	while(1) {
>  		struct option long_opts[] = {
> @@ -542,6 +545,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>  			{"erase",	no_argument,		NULL,	'e'},
>  			{"program",	required_argument,	NULL,	'p'},
>  			{"force",	no_argument,		NULL,	'f'},
> +			{"flash-file",	required_argument,	NULL,	'F'},
>  			{"info",	no_argument,		NULL,	'i'},
>  			{"tune",	no_argument,		NULL,	't'},
>  			{"dummy",	no_argument,		NULL,	'd'},
> @@ -555,7 +559,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>  		};
>  		int c, oidx = 0;
>  
> -		c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "+:a:s:P:r:43Eemp:fdihvbtgS:T:c",
> +		c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "+:a:s:P:r:43Eemp:fdihvbtgS:T:cF:",
>  				long_opts, &oidx);
>  		if (c == -1)
>  			break;
> @@ -595,6 +599,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>  		case 'f':
>  			must_confirm = false;
>  			break;
> +		case 'F':
> +			flashfilename = optarg;
> +			break;
>  		case 'd':
>  			must_confirm = false;
>  			dummy_run = true;
> @@ -763,7 +770,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> -	if (arch_flash_init(&bl, NULL, true)) {
> +	if (arch_flash_init(&bl, flashfilename, true)) {
>  		fprintf(stderr, "Couldn't initialise architecture flash structures\n");
>  		exit(1);
>  	}



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