action #88189
closedFirmware upgrade of qa-power8-4.qa.suse.de
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Description
Motivation¶
We were told that we need to apply the most recent firmware on machines which might help with some problems
I upgraded qa-power8-4 to the newest firmware version available at Fix-Central. The machine is according to /proc/cpuid
a 8348-21C
-machine. I Flashed the hpm package according to the docs https://delivery04.dhe.ibm.com/sar/CMA/SFA/08ct3/0/8348_820.1923.20190613n.html#__RefHeading___Toc1210_1053759979 (See section 7.2). Afterwards I boot up the system again just to see:
5.83228|System shutting down with error status 0x90FF0003
Several resets of the system and BMC I don't see any message anymore. The webinterface reports errors with the "sensors" "OCC Active", "Boot Count" and "BIOS Golden Side".
Updated by nicksinger over 3 years ago
hpm check indicates that the BIOS seems to be untouched? (even though the previous "hpm upgrade" told me it updates it).
workstation ~ ยป ipmitool -I lanplus -C 3 -H qa-power8-4.qa.suse.de -U ADMIN -P admin hpm check ~/Downloads/8348_820.1923.20190613n_update.hpm
PICMG HPM.1 Upgrade Agent 1.0.9:
Validating firmware image integrity...OK
Performing preparation stage...OK
Comparing Target & Image File version
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|ID | Name | Versions |
| | | Active | Backup | File |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|*^ 2|BIOS | 1.12 60000000 | ---.-- -------- | 1.12 96000000 |
|* 0|BOOT | 2.16 51220300 | ---.-- -------- | 2.16 51220300 |
|* 1|APP | 2.16 51220300 | ---.-- -------- | 2.16 51220300 |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
(*) Component requires Payload Cold Reset
(^) Indicates component would be upgraded
Updated by nicksinger over 3 years ago
Flashing the same file resulted into a bootable system. Unfortunately the system still don't seem to find its OS in petitboot (as tracked in https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/81058). I will see if it somehow possible to update petitboot too
Updated by nicksinger over 3 years ago
I'm building the most recent version of openPOWER (https://github.com/open-power/op-build) with power8 support for "habanero" (the codename for the used platform in power8-4) now. This should include the newest available versions for skiboot, skiroot and petitboot (https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/OpenPOWER_Firmware#Process has a nice overview how the different loaders interact with each other). Also a recommended read in that regard: https://sthbrx.github.io/blog/2016/05/13/tell-me-about-petitboot/ (how skiboot/skiroot and petitboot are linked)
Updated by nicksinger over 3 years ago
From "Petitboot System Information" before flashing the new openPOWER firmware:
System type: 8348-21C
System id: 684F75A
Primary platform versions:
IBM-habanero-OP8_v1.12_2.96
op-build-v2.3-5-g98aa884
buildroot-2019.02.1-16-ge01dcd0
skiboot-v6.3.1
hostboot-p8-c893515-pd6f049d
occ-p8-a2856b7
linux-5.0.7-openpower1-p8e31f00
petitboot-v1.10.3
machine-xml-c3998a5
hostboot-binaries-hw041519a.opv23
capp-ucode-p9-dd2-v4
BMC current side:
Device ID: 0x20
Device Rev: 0x1
Firmware version: 2.16.5bff0000
IPMI version: 2
BMC golden side:
Device ID: 0x20
Device Rev: 0x1
Firmware version: 2.08.d4470100
IPMI version: 2
Storage devices
sda1:
UUID: f5de0a79-bfa8-41c9-ba86-c0d2df739acc
mounted at: /var/petitboot/mnt/dev/sda1
sdb2:
UUID: eebe647f-e867-416e-a0fa-7a6732bfcf9d
mounted at: /var/petitboot/mnt/dev/sdb2
Management (BMC) interface
MAC: a0:42:3f:32:b4:71
Updated by nicksinger over 3 years ago
hrm, flashing the openPOWER firmware with pflash did not succeed as the kernel reports an IO issue as soon as you try to erase the old stuff
Updated by nicksinger over 3 years ago
- Status changed from In Progress to Feedback
I've sent out a mail onto the openpower mailinglist asking for help. You can see a message of what I wrote on osd-admins@suse.de. It waits for moderators approval now.
Updated by nicksinger over 3 years ago
I got quite a few answers from the list. Unfortunately none of them really worked for me. The best Idea I got from it was to use the bmc system (you can ssh onto it) to flash the firmware. Unfortunately it is some old arm (ARM926EJ-S rev 5 (v5l)) with an ancient glibc (libc-2.11.3.so) and I was absolutely not able to get the pflash
utility (cross-)compiled for it. Somebody in the mail thread offered me a binary download in an attachment which is a little bit too shady for me to execute.
So I'm out of ideas here. Anybody else has an idea how we could get a running version for pflash on that old system?
The code to compile pflash can be found here: https://github.com/open-power/skiboot/tree/master/external/pflash
Updated by okurz over 3 years ago
- Description updated (diff)
- Status changed from Feedback to Rejected
As discussed with nsinger we are not aware of further problems after we fixed the boot problems software side in #68053 so we can also close this ticket as rejected as we did not conduct the firmware upgrades.