firmware-tools on RHEL5 does not update PERC4e/Di firmware

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

Charles,

The update for this is now in the official repo. Can you retest? I've tested this myself on two different systems and it appears to be closed.
--
Michael


-----Original Message-----
From: firmware-tools-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com on behalf of Michael E Brown
Sent: Mon 2/25/2008 9:34 AM
To: Rose, Charles
Cc: firmware-tools-devel at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: Re: firmware-tools on RHEL5 does not update PERC4e/Di firmware
 
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:25:01PM +0530, Charles_Rose at dell.com wrote:
> I have RHEL5 installed on a PE6800 with a PERC4e/Di. After downloading
> the updates from http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/testing/ and
> running update_firmware shows that there is a newer version of firmware,
> but it is not marked for upgrade. The version on the machine is 522d
> while 5a2d is the newer version. But update_firmware does not prompt me
> to install it.
> 
> [root at c-rhel5 ~]# update_firmware 
> 
> Running system inventory...
> 
> Searching storage directory for available BIOS updates...
> Checking PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 4e/Di Firmware - 522d
>         Available:
> pci_firmware(ven_0x1028_dev_0x0013_subven_0x1028_subdev_0x016f) - 5a2d
>         Did not find a newer package to install that meets all
> installation checks.
> Checking System BIOS for PowerEdge 6800 - a05
>         Available: system_bios(ven_0x1028_dev_0x016f) - a05
>         Did not find a newer package to install that meets all
> installation checks.

This looks like a legitimate bug, but I'll need to figure out the best
way to fix it. The PERC firmware uses a non-standard and wierd
versioning scheme that does not version compare like normal version
strings.
--
Michael
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