[Skiboot] [PATCH] libflash/mbox-flash: fallback to requesting lower MBOX versions from BMC

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Dec 20 10:46:31 AEDT 2017


Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> Some BMC mbox implementations seem to sometimes mysteriously fail when trying
> to negotiate v3 when they only support v2. To work around this, we
> can fall back to requesting lower mbox protocol versions until we find
> one that works.
>
> In theory, this should already "just work", but we have a counter example,
> which this patch fixes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  libflash/mbox-flash.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

merged to master as of f23d6c626bd657e967347bda872242427b0d9221

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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