[Skiboot] [PATCH v2] boot_test.sh: Add SMC BMC support

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jun 6 21:19:10 AEST 2017


Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> Your BMC needs a special debug image flashed to use this, the exact
> image and methods aren't something I can publish here, but if you work
> for IBM or SMC you can find out from the right sources.
>
> A few things are needed to move around to be able to flash to a SMC BMC.
>
> For a start, the SSH daemon will only accept connections after a special
> incantation (which I also can't share), but you should put that in the
> ~/.skiboot_boot_tests file along with some other default login information
> we don't publicise too broadly (because Security Through Obscurity is
> *obviously* a good idea....)
>
> We also can't just directly "ssh /bin/true", we need an expect script,
> and we can't scp, but we can anonymous rsync!
>
> You also need a pflash binary to copy over.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - up the timeout in expect script, allows flashing of full pnor
> - use mboxctl

Merged to master as of 0efe38cc7a322d668e5b494cb4b464522950cec2
-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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