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Install this package:

emerge -a sys-apps/opal-utils

If the package is masked, you can unmask it using the autounmask tool or standard emerge options:

autounmask sys-apps/opal-utils

Or alternatively:

emerge --autounmask-write -a sys-apps/opal-utils

Package Information

Description:

This package contains utility programs for OpenPower systems: 'opal-prd' provides a daemon to load and run the OpenPower firmware's Processor Recovery Diagnostics binary. It's responsible for run time maintenance of OpenPower Systems hardware. 'gard' utility can read, parse and clear hardware gard partitions on OpenPower platforms. 'getscom' and 'putscom' utilities provide an interface to query or modify the registers of the different chipsets of an OpenPower system. 'pflash' is a tool to access the flash modules on such systems and update the OpenPower firmware.

Homepage:

https://github.com/open-power/skiboot

License:

Apache-2.0 GPL-2+

Versions

Metadata

Description

• This package contains utility programs for OpenPower systems: 'opal-prd' provides a daemon to load and run the OpenPower firmware's Processor Recovery Diagnostics binary. It's responsible for run time maintenance of OpenPower Systems hardware. 'gard' utility can read, parse and clear hardware gard partitions on OpenPower platforms. 'getscom' and 'putscom' utilities provide an interface to query or modify the registers of the different chipsets of an OpenPower system. 'pflash' is a tool to access the flash modules on such systems and update the OpenPower firmware.

Maintainers

• PowerPC architecture team (ppc@gentoo.org) - Type: project

Upstream

• Remote IDs:
  • github: open-power/skiboot

<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="project">
		<email>ppc@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>PowerPC architecture team</name>
	</maintainer>
	<longdescription lang="en">
		This package contains utility programs for OpenPower systems:
		'opal-prd' provides a daemon to load and run the OpenPower firmware's Processor Recovery Diagnostics binary.
			It's responsible for run time maintenance of OpenPower Systems hardware.
		
		'gard' utility can read, parse and clear hardware gard partitions on OpenPower platforms.
		
		'getscom' and 'putscom' utilities provide an interface to query or modify the registers of the different chipsets of an OpenPower system.
		
		'pflash' is a tool to access the flash modules on such systems and update the OpenPower firmware.
	</longdescription>
	<upstream>
		<remote-id type="github">open-power/skiboot</remote-id>
	</upstream>
</pkgmetadata>

Lint Warnings

• [Warning] USE flag 'doc' in ebuild 7.0 is not documented in metadata.xml
• [Error] Missing md5-cache for ebuild opal-utils-7.0

USE Flags

Manage flags for this package: euse -i <flag> -p sys-apps/opal-utils | euse -E <flag> -p sys-apps/opal-utils | euse -D <flag> -p sys-apps/opal-utils

Files

• flags.patch
• opal-prd.confd
• opal-prd.initd

Manifest