BMC packages for dell-bmcflash/firmware-tools?

[Eugene Pik]

On 8/10/07, Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:07:01AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > On 8/9/07, Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com> wrote:
> > > 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?
> > >
> >
> > 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.
>
> Well...
>
> I have a devious idea, if you are up to it. I dont think I have the
> resources to do it myself, but if you want to help, I think we can pull
> it off.
>
> How about a script that can automatically generate a live CD image from
> the current list of update packages and the latest CentOS5 bits?  If you
> could help with that, I could easily run a weekly live-CD build and post
> it on linux.dell.com.
>
> So, a Live CD with:
>     CentOS 5
>     OMSA
>     firmware-tools
>     All of the firmware-tools payload packages
>     anything else we can put in there
>
> I will look around and see what I can do about the diagnostics stuff. I
> know a few people to talk to.
>
> I would really like to see something that we can regenerate on a weekly
> basis with the latest sources rather than something that we simply
> generate once and see stagnate.
>
> I am willing to run the scripts on an internal machine that I have, and
> host the content.
>
> What do you think?



THAT WOULD BE GREAT!!!
You wouldn't believe how many people are waiting for that!

Thanks in advance,
Eugene Pik




> > 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.
>
> Details? I can fix if there is something wrong with my RPMs.
>
> > > 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
>
> Hint: use "hardlink" in the %post to hardlink identical files before you
> generate the image. There are *many* duplicate BIOS images that will
> hardlink nicely.
>
> > > 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 :).
>
> Will definitely like to see that.
>
> --
> Michael
>
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