BMC packages for dell-bmcflash/firmware-tools?

[Michael E Brown]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:04:26AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 8/9/07, Michael_E_Brown at dell.com <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com> wrote:
> > So I was out for a week and I'm woefully behind on email... :(
> >
> > First things first, I promised somebody about three months ago that I would have perc5/sas5 flash utilities in "a couple weeks". Well, I am just putting the finishing touches on this today. I have a few perc5 packages out there today which I published a couple days ago, with the rest (sas5) to come later today. (official announcement to follow)
> >
> > The BMC turned out to be a lot nastier than I thought. I'm working on it, but I'm not going to even attempt an ETA because I know I'll just miss it.
> > --
> 
> Even though you are behind... thanks for your help. All I need now are
> the various diagnostic tools in an rpm format.. and I will have a
> bootable centos-5 cdrom with most of the system and pci firmware
> images that you have up and ready for you.

Sweet. I suppose you saw Matt's blog post and wiki page for using
revisor to do this and that is what you are doing, right?

Couple more notes:

1) I've added system names for almost all of the bios images. This means
that the rpms should be named something like
"system_bios_PowerEdge_2800...", rather than
"system_bios_ven_0x1028_dev_0x2468...", which should be much more
user-friendly.

2) firmware-addon-dell 1.4.4 should finish building in about an hour or
so that fixes a typo that kept actual bios flash from occurring.

3) all of the packages (aside from #2, above) are already posted

4) payload packages are building/extracting now and should be up in the
firmware repo within an hour or so.

Anybody feeling adventurous is encouraged to try them out. I've tested
on two machines with three different cards (perc4, and two variations on
perc5). I dont have sas5 to test with, so I can only do dry runs, but
the commands use the same format and args, so I am pretty confident that
it will work ok.

--
Michael