{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-power/pnor/issues/46","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-power/pnor","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-power/pnor/issues/46/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-power/pnor/issues/46/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-power/pnor/issues/46/events","html_url":"https://github.com/open-power/pnor/issues/46","id":153698460,"number":46,"title":"NVRAM partition falsely claims to use ECC","user":{"login":"sammj","id":10678233,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10678233?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/sammj","html_url":"https://github.com/sammj","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sammj/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sammj/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sammj/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sammj/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sammj/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sammj/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sammj/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sammj/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sammj/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":{"login":"scprek","id":2783947,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2783947?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/scprek","html_url":"https://github.com/scprek","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/scprek/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/scprek/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/scprek/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/scprek/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/scprek/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/scprek/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/scprek/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/scprek/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/scprek/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2016-05-09T03:45:45Z","updated_at":"2016-05-16T05:14:52Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Listing available partitions with pflash displays the NVRAM partition as being ECC-corrected:\r\n> ID=18           NVRAM 01de2000..01e72000 (actual=00090000) [ECC]\r\n\r\nBut when dumping the partition itself this appears to not be the case, for example:\r\n```\r\n00000ff0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................\r\n00001000: 700c 1000 636f 6d6d 6f6e 0000 0000 0000  p...common......\r\n00001010: 7065 7469 7462 6f6f 742c 626f 6f74 6465  petitboot,bootde\r\n00001020: 7673 3d6e 6574 776f 726b 2064 6973 6b20  vs=network disk \r\n00001030: 616e 7920 0070 6574 6974 626f 6f74 2c77  any .petitboot,w\r\n00001040: 7269 7465 3f3d 6661 6c73 6500 7065 7469  rite?=false.peti\r\n00001050: 7462 6f6f 742c 7469 6d65 6f75 743d 3330  tboot,timeout=30\r\n00001060: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................\r\n00001070: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................\r\n00001080: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................\r\n```\r\n\r\nAFAIK powerpc-utils (ie. the nvram utility) isn't ECC-aware, so perhaps it is easier to remove the ECC marker for the NVRAM partition."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-power/pnor/issues/comments/219350426","html_url":"https://github.com/open-power/pnor/issues/46#issuecomment-219350426","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-power/pnor/issues/46","id":219350426,"user":{"login":"sammj","id":10678233,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10678233?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/sammj","html_url":"https://github.com/sammj","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sammj/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sammj/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sammj/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sammj/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sammj/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sammj/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sammj/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sammj/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sammj/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-05-16T05:14:52Z","updated_at":"2016-05-16T05:14:52Z","body":"Voila! https://github.com/open-power/pnor/pull/47\r\nBuilt and boot-tested, I believe I caught all mentions of ECC for NVRAM."}}