[Skiboot] skiboot LID > 1MB, "larger than partition"

[Stewart Smith]

Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>> For a system with remotely recent hostboot, just flash skiboot.lid.xz
>> rather than skiboot.lid and it'll all "just work" (and it'll boot a tiny
>> bit faster).
>
> I know we can blindly flash .xz image on recent op-build. But is there a way to 
> validate whether its safe to flash .xz or not ?

that isn't just attempting to flash+boot? I don't think so... Otherwise
you have to go check if the hostboot on the machine is recent enough,
which isn't so easy (they don't do version numbers, just git commit ids)

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Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.