why are we still doing this?

[Eric W. Biederman]

ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> writes:

> in arima/hdama/Config.lb
> 
> ##
> ## Clean up the motherboard id strings
> ##
> option MAINBOARD_PART_NUMBER="HDAMA"
> option MAINBOARD_VENDOR="ARIMA"
> 
> 
> 
> OK, the config tool will create this by default:
> MAINBOARD_PART_NUMBER="hdama"
> MAINBOARD_VENDOR="arima"
> 
> why do we need to put this type of thing in the mainboard config file? 
> 
> just wondering

The goal is to be able to match the original BIOS on the system so
flashing tools can change the BIOS version and not flash if things
don't match.

The default is there so we still get something reasonable if you
don't override the settings.

I don't know how the interactions work with the new configuration tool.


Eric