Architectures/PowerPC/Packages

Review of Power specific packages

The goal is to review all architecture packages with respect to their need during installer run and during boot. During installation it might require tools for managing hw (eg. disk arrays), during boot time it might want eg. udev rules.

Bug 1463749 leads to this review. The Host & Platform page contains some background from the Modularity point of view.

Packages

Package	Tool	Used in install	Used in boot	Notes
iprutils		N/A	N/A	bla
libcxl		N/A	N/A	bla
librtas		N/A	N/A	bla
libservicelog		N/A	N/A	bla
libvpd		N/A	N/A	bla
lsvpd		N/A	N/A	bla
opal-prd	opal-prd	No	No	Daemon for listening to and interacting with hardware diagnostic events
paflib		N/A	N/A	bla
powerpc-utils	amsstat	N/A	N/A	Display list of active Mem sharing statistics. the potential split foo/bar is related to questions in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1463749
	activate_firmware	N/A	N/A	activate firmware img that has been updated concurrently
	bootlist	N/A	N/A	view & update system bootlist stored in NVRAM. Uses ofpathname and nvram.
	drmgr	N/A	N/A	Note here
	errinject	No	No	IBM internal use only for injecting errors.
	hvcsadmin	N/A	N/A	virtual console server adm utility.
	lparstat	N/A	N/A	reports logical partitions related info & statistics
	lsdevinfo	N/A	N/A	Note here
	lsprop	N/A	N/A	Note here
	lsslot	N/A	N/A	display hot plug capable slots & resources
	ls-vdev	N/A	N/A	Note here
	ls-veth	N/A	N/A	Note here
	ls-vscsi	N/A	N/A	Note here
	nvram	Yes	No	used to print & modify data in NVRAM
	nvsetenv	N/A	N/A	Note here
	ofpathname	Yes	No	translate between open firmware & logical device names
	ppc64_cpu	N/A	N/A	display cpu characteristics of PPC system
	pseries_platform	Yes	No	Used by ofpathname. Determines type of running Power systems (PowerNV, KVM guest, pSeries)
	rtas_dbg	N/A	N/A	enable debug output for rtas call. Only supported on PowerVM systems.
	rtas_dump	N/A	N/A	dump contents of rtas event into human readable format.
	rtas_event_decode	N/A	N/A	Note here
	rtas_ibm_get_vpd	N/A	N/A	Note here
	serv_config	N/A	N/A	view & config system service policies & settings
	set_poweron_time	N/A	N/A	set time in future for system to be powered on
	sys_ident	N/A	N/A	generate unique ID numbers
	uesensor	N/A	N/A	view state of system environmental issues
	update_flash	N/A	N/A	manage system & service processor firmwares
	update_flash_nv
powerpc-utils-python	amsvis	N/A	N/A	visualisation tools for AMS memory details
	amsdata	N/A	N/A	read/parse AMS-related data from system files in /proc & /sys
	amsnet	N/A	N/A	network client/server for transmitting json data
	amswidget	N/A	N/A	draw a bar readout
ppc64-diag	opal_errd	N/A	N/A	daemon to read/parse OPAL events
	...	N/A	N/A	Note here
ppc64-utils	R: binutils	N/A	N/A	omitable, required by kernel-bootwrapper
	R: kernel-bootwrapper	N/A	N/A	seems it's used to create zImage containing device tree for embedded platforms, do we need that when using grub2 as the only bootloader?
	R: powerpc-utils	N/A	N/A
	R: libvpd	N/A	N/A	omitable, lsvpd links with it, contains udev rule for updating VPD
	R: lsvpd	N/A	N/A
servicelog		N/A	N/A	bla