Dell firmware repository updates

[Michael E Brown]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 12:00:57PM +0100, Faris Raouf wrote:
> Ummm...well I've configured the firmware repo and downloaded some packages,
> but now I'm scared and have not yet run the update_firmware script.
> 
> Basically I see that it has downloaded a BMC update:
> bmc_firmware_ven_0x1028_dev_0x01b3_version_a06 (along with a few other
> non-BMC things)
> 
> And I noticed the comment about 40% of machines being bricked in Michael's
> tests when it comes to BMC updates.

I've enabled creation of bmc packages, but I have disabled BMC updates.
When you run 'update_firmware', it will print out a message saying
something like "bmc updates disabled due to driver issues, working on
it."

probably should add a note about this somewhere.

> I'm just wondering if that issue had been sorted or if I'm in danger of
> bricking my machine if I run update_firmware now?

No.

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Michael