[Skiboot] [PATCH 4/5] external/pflash: Catch incompatible combination of flags

Cyril Bur cyril.bur at au1.ibm.com
Fri Oct 21 20:36:28 AEDT 2016


On Fri, 2016-10-21 at 20:05 +1030, Joel Stanley wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Cyril Bur <cyril.bur at au1.ibm.com>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2016-10-21 at 19:55 +1030, Joel Stanley wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 7:22 PM, Cyril Bur <cyril.bur at au1.ibm.com
> > > >
> > > wrote:
> > > > Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur at au1.ibm.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  external/pflash/pflash.c | 10 ++++++++++
> > > >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/external/pflash/pflash.c
> > > > b/external/pflash/pflash.c
> > > > index 002d0dc..608220f 100644
> > > > --- a/external/pflash/pflash.c
> > > > +++ b/external/pflash/pflash.c
> > > > @@ -743,6 +743,16 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> > > >                 exit(1);
> > > >         }
> > > > 
> > > > +       if (flashfilename && bmc_flash) {
> > > > +               fprintf(stderr, "Filename or bmc flash but not
> > > > both\n");
> > > > +               exit(1);
> > > > +       }
> > > > +
> > > > +       if (flashfilename && mtd) {
> > > > +               fprintf(stderr, "Filename or mtd access but not
> > > > both\n");
> > > 
> > > How do I specify a given mtd path?
> > 
> > Either do nothing and pflash will find it for you. 'Should just
> > work'
> > for both AMI and OpenBMC systems and of course the host. Or use '-
> > F, --
> > flash-filename' and specify /dev/mtdx which should be a full PNOR,
> > /dev/mtd7 on OpenBMC systems
> 
> If I use -F does it know that it's a mtd path and it needs to use the
> erase ioctl?
> 

It does.

Cyril

> Cheers,
> 
> Joel
> 



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