BMC packages for dell-bmcflash/firmware-tools?

[Joe Malicki]

Michael,

Has there been any progress on this?  Dell just released an "Urgent"
BMC firmware update for 2950's, and I'm wondering if there's any chance 
I might be able to use bmcflash for this?  (the updates available on
Dell's site require OMSA, although it doesn't appear to do much with
it).

Do 40% of any machines get bricked, or are there some configurations
(platforms, BIOS versions, etc) that would be safe to use the downloaded 
bmcflash tool with (provided ioctl numbers are patched with s/'I'/'i'/).

Thanks,
Joe Malicki

Michael_E_Brown at dell.com wrote:
> Richard,
>     BMC is in a sort of funny state now. It bricks boxes about 40% of the time when I use my tools... so I've decided to hold off releasing payloads for it until I sort that out. :)
>
>     I tried making new packages last week. Spent several days on it and was pretty grossed out at the current DUP packages, so I gave up. I'll get back to them here some day. My current project besides the Ubuntu stuff is working on PERC5 packages. I have all the updates in the /testing/ repos now but havent been able to test it. A couple more days should see those released into the main repos. Everything is going well on perc5 so far.
> --
> Michael
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com on behalf of Richard Chan
> Sent: Tue 6/5/2007 9:05 PM
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: BMC packages for dell-bmcflash/firmware-tools?
>  
>
> I noticed dell-bmcflash (like lsiflash) in the software repo.
> Where do you find the corresponding bmc firmware-tools compatible packages?
>
> I looked at fwupdate.com and successfully did a BIOS and LSI upgrade but 
> couldn't
> identify what bmc rpms look like. Is there an easy way to test out by 
> converting the
> shell-script based BMC package to a firmware-tools compat package 
> without going
> through the whole mirroring process?
>
> Thanks
> Richard
>