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commit4fa796cb89641b3db4b4b44ef15ebbb249b1e984[log] [tgz]
authorSunny Srivastava <sunnsr25@in.ibm.com>Tue Apr 01 10:27:02 2025 +0530
committerSunny Srivastava <sunnsr25@in.ibm.com>Tue Apr 01 19:10:54 2025 +0530
tree79b299631784e3857943076b8d78c30ce67e1580
parentffdff3132f2e523d7d444900c81cea706ec69f8f [diff]
Update error type for runtime error

In case there is a generic runtime exception thrown by VPD-Manager,
"FirmwareError" error type needs to be used to call out BMC firmware.

This is required as current implementation does not have any call out
in case of runtime exceptions and phosphor-logging downgrades the
severity in case of no call out.

Change-Id: I3ccd2f2e9cd947d4334f6676d955a320828320c8
Signed-off-by: Sunny Srivastava <sunnsr25@in.ibm.com>
2 files changed
tree: 79b299631784e3857943076b8d78c30ce67e1580
  1. configuration/
  2. scripts/
  3. service_files/
  4. test/
  5. vpd-manager/
  6. vpd-tool/
  7. vpdecc/
  8. .clang-format
  9. .gitignore
  10. LICENSE
  11. meson.build
  12. meson.options
  13. OWNERS
  14. README.md
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.