I have done a few builds of firmware for the Raptor Blackbird since I got mine, each of them based on upstream op-build plus a few patches. The previous one was Yet another near-upstream Raptor Blackbird firmware build that I built a couple of months ago. This new build is based off the release candidate of op-build v2.5. Here’s what’s changed:
Package | Old Version | New Version |
hcode | hw030220a.opmst | hw050520a.opmst |
hostboot | acdff8a390a2654d | d52fed67bdebe2b5 |
kexec-lite | 18ec88310c4134e | 6b0130b3c1ea489e |
libflash | v6.5-228-g82aed17a | v6.6 |
linux | v5.4.22 | v5.4.33 |
linux-headers | v5.4.22 | v5.4.33 |
machine-xml | 17e9e84d504582c88 | e782e30829e0d6be |
occ | 3ab29212518e65740 | ab4dc96fd6cf584c42 |
openpower-pnor | 6fb8d914134d544a84 | 175f00d9c6dc395faf3 |
sbe | c318ab00116d92f08c | 78fb7838495ad0aab7 |
skiboot | v6.5-228-g82aed17a | v6.6 |
Go grab blackbird.pnor from https://www.flamingspork.com/blackbird/stewart-blackbird-6-images/, and give it a go! Just scp it to your BMC, and flash it:
pflash -E -p /tmp/blackbird.pnor
There’s two differences from upstream op-build: my pull request to op-build, and the fixing of the (old) buildroot so that it’ll build on Fedora 32. From discussions on the openpower-firmware mailing list, it seems that one hopeful thing is to have all the Blackbird support merged in before the final op-build v2.5 is tagged. The previous op-build release (v2.4) was tagged in July 2019, so we’re about 10 months into what was a 2 month release cycle, so speculating on when that final release will be is somewhat difficult.