BMC packages for dell-bmcflash/firmware-tools?

[Eberhard Moenkeberg]

Hi,

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 8/9/07, Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com> wrote:

> > > 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?
> >
> 
> Actually I started with revisor... got frustrated of trying to get it
> to work on EL-5 and went for the livecd solution that was listed in
> the OMSA. It isnt as user friendly as revisor.. but trying to get all
> the bits working was running up an internal deadline.
> 
> > 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.
> >
> 
> Yeah this caused some problems with livecd in the database.. it would
> say that package XYZ was not there even though it was.. it came down
> to some issues with conflicts.
> 
> 
> > 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.
> >
> 
> Ahh.. well I needed to add some documentation to the items to get it
> more user friendly. I decided to use xfce as the desktop as it cut
> down the disk space needed. I got all the images I could get livecd to
> recognize to install in 570 MB image
> 
> > 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.
> >
> 
> Will let you know today. Will put the images up somewhere they can be
> snarfed without killing my network (1 cd for image, 1 cd for
> .src.rpms). Like I said.. I just need the diagnostic packages in rpm
> format and I am in my happy place :).

You can put the images to ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/incoming/.
I will move them to /pub/linux/dell/ then, accessible via http, ftp and 
rsync.


Viele Grüße
Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)