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commit0407b1723253aea09af5defed2e39295669a87b3[log] [tgz]
authorPriyangaRamasamy <priyanga24@in.ibm.com>Tue Mar 31 13:57:18 2020 +0530
committerPriyanga Ramasamy <priyanga24@in.ibm.com>Tue Jul 14 21:05:05 2020 +0530
treeb2ffd84bfa5bc8df19d11c561830f1d6765aab0e
parentcdf943c93017f1fb605378844613683b069db712 [diff]
VPD Tool : Force Collect On Hardware

This commit adds an additional option called --forceReset
in the vpd-tool.

This option is used to restart the Inventory Manager service
and retrigger the udev events which launches the VPD services.

How to use the option?
./vpd-tool --forceReset/-f/-F

This option does not take any arguments.

Tested on simics.

Signed-off-by: PriyangaRamasamy <priyanga24@in.ibm.com>
Change-Id: Icd1ad30389432f731f21cc84999f7a54fcbbec65
5 files changed
tree: b2ffd84bfa5bc8df19d11c561830f1d6765aab0e
  1. examples/
  2. test/
  3. vpd-manager/
  4. vpdecc/
  5. .clang-format
  6. .gitignore
  7. app.cpp
  8. args.cpp
  9. args.hpp
  10. bootstrap.sh
  11. configure.ac
  12. const.hpp
  13. defines.hpp
  14. extra-properties-example.yaml
  15. extra-properties.mako.hpp
  16. extra-properties.py
  17. ibm_vpd_app.cpp
  18. ibm_vpd_type_check.cpp
  19. ibm_vpd_type_check.hpp
  20. impl.cpp
  21. impl.hpp
  22. keyword_vpd_parser.cpp
  23. keyword_vpd_parser.hpp
  24. keyword_vpd_types.hpp
  25. LICENSE
  26. MAINTAINERS
  27. Makefile.am
  28. meson.build
  29. meson_options.txt
  30. parser.cpp
  31. parser.hpp
  32. README.md
  33. store.hpp
  34. types.hpp
  35. utils.cpp
  36. utils.hpp
  37. vpd_tool.cpp
  38. vpd_tool_impl.cpp
  39. vpd_tool_impl.hpp
  40. write.cpp
  41. write.hpp
  42. writefru.mako.hpp
  43. writefru.py
  44. writefru.yaml
README.md

#Overview This repository hosts code for OpenPower and IBM IPZ format VPD parsers. Both OpenPower VPD and IPZ VPD formats are structured binaries that consist of records and keywords. A record is a collection of multiple keywords. More information about the format can be found here.

The repository consists of two distinct applications, which are:

OpenPower VPD Parser

This is a build-time YAML driven application that parses the OpenPower VPD format and uses the YAML configuration (see extra-properties-example.yaml and writefru.yaml) to determine:

  • The supported records and keywords.
  • How VPD data is translated into D-Bus interfaces and properties.

The application instance must be passed in the file path to the VPD (this can, for example, be a sysfs path exposed by the EEPROM device driver) and also the D-Bus object path(s) that EEPROM data needs to be published under.

IBM VPD Parser

This parser is can be built by passing in the --enable-ibm-parser configure option. This parser differs from the OpenPower VPD parser in the following ways:

  • It parses all the records and keywords from the VPD, including large keywords (Keywords that begin with a # and are > 255 bytes in length).
  • It relies on a runtime JSON configuration (see examples/inventory.json) to determine the D-Bus object path(s) that hold interfaces and properties representing the VPD for a given VPD file path.

Making the application runtime JSON driven allows us to support multiple systems (with different FRU configurations) to be supported in a single code image as well as making the application more flexible for future improvements.

TODOs and Future Improvements

  1. The long-term goal is to completely do away with the build time YAML driven configurations and instead reconcile the OpenPower VPD parser and the IBM VPD parser applications into a single runtime JSON driven application.
  2. Add details to the README on how to configure and build the application.
  3. More JSON documentation.
  4. Support for more IBM VPD formats.
  5. VPD Write and tool documentation.