Comment # 19 on bug 1018839 from Keith Busch

(In reply to Ruediger Oertel from comment #18)
> fw download seems to work but apparently there is no way to acutally activate
> this firmware (or the firmware is not in a format this drive accepts):
> 
> # nvme fw-download /dev/nvme0 --fw=/root/8DV101H0.bin 
> Firmware download success
> ibs-arm-1:~ # nvme fw-activate /dev/nvme0 -s 0 -a 1
> NVME Admin command error:FIRMWARE_IMAGE(107)
> ibs-arm-1:~ # nvme fw-activate /dev/nvme0 -s 0 -a 0
> NVME Admin command error:INVALID_FIELD(2)
> ibs-arm-1:~ # nvme fw-activate /dev/nvme0 -s 0 -a 2
> Success activating firmware action:2 slot:0
> 
> okay, action 2 succeeds, but that does not involve the newly
> uploaded/downloaded
> firmware.

Action 1 is required to use to get new firmware activated, and the response
says it's invalid, meaning here the signing on this firmware is not compatible
with the signature in your running firmware. That's what I was afraid would
happen, because I can't do anything about that. The host software I develop are
on the wrong side of this problem as I have no visibility into firmware
building and packaging.