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Xavier NIC3 Test & Monitoring Board firmware.
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Need Dell decision on FRU EEPROM 'other areas' #4

Open bentprong opened 1 year ago

bentprong commented 1 year ago

Currently the firmware decodes the board info area. The product area appears to me to be similar but has not been decoded. It is about 8 hours of work to decode it. Also the chassis area and internal use area - neither are decoded. For some areas (including these 2) there is data that cannot be decoded into text (ASCII) so should those be displayed as hex bytes?

rickbrandwein commented 1 year ago

I'm not certain if reading the entire decoded FRU would be a must have. Currently the FRU can be read by a different piece of gear. I do think it would be a nice feature to have since reviewing FRUs is common to my work.

Quick question. At one point I was able to use the 'eeprom' command without arguments and see the fru portion mentioned. But lately I enter 'eeprom' I get the statement: Displays FRU EEPROM info areas if no args. 'eeprom ' dumps bytes @

I'm not sure what I am doing different. Any thoughts?

rickbrandwein commented 1 year ago

Figured out to use the command EEPROM SHOW

rickbrandwein commented 1 year ago

After speaking with Jason K about this I think we can close it and keep as is. Decoding the entire FRU would take time and the current capability is useful to demonstrate the FRU is there and working. Worse comes to worse we can review this at a later time if the functionality is demanded. It may be worth adding the "show" argument in the help menu.