Sam Mendoza-Jonas

Ah right, yes all the P9 BMCs are using mbox for flash access. I was referring to OpenBMC's "Virtual-PNOR" abtraction which holds everything in memory, which itself isn't an issue...

> Which relevant shortcomings are you thinking about? Turns out I'm not really sure - it's been a while since I've properly looked at the VPNOR code, it looks a...

Had a play with splitting kernel and initramfs - haven't done any timing yet but it does require this fixup to skiboot: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/887586/

What do you get from `grep BR2_DEFCONFIG /home/jenkins_data/sath/pridhivi/boston_p9dsu_opbuild/op-build/output/.config` after such a build?

Yep that sounds like the neatest way, although as you say if NVRAM is cleared at some point later on you will get the Petitboot defaults, not what was specified...

Is this just the kernel booting with the `quiet` parameter? This is intentional, as on certain P8 platforms the BMC's SOL implementation can slow down boot considerably. Otherwise, has anything...

Ah ok. What are you using to view the IPMI console? What's probably happening is that ncurses is just wiping the screen and drawing the UI on top - in...

By the time the UI comes up we _should_ be well and truly through the boot process. Before then and the log will still be intact since ncurses won't have...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/?title=Hot_glue_gun But more seriously, the GUI part could be covered by this recent series: https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/petitboot/2018-December/001251.html > If this is just an admin-level thing, couldn't it be easily done in the...

Right, Petitboot at least will send an AMI-specific request on boot to get alternate-side version information. We could be smarter and check what we're running on top of before asking,...