04-15-2011
I don't know whether they should or not but our AIX shop performs our own firmware upgrades on everything we admin. Never had IBM support do it unless they were in house for some other HW repairs and a firmware upgraded was needed.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
slugimage
SLUGIMAGE(1) General Commands Manual SLUGIMAGE(1)
NAME
slugimage - Manipulate NSLU2 firmware images
SYNOPSIS
slugimage [-p|-u] [options]
DESCRIPTION
slugimage can be used to create or unpack NSLU2 firmware images.
OPTIONS
-d, --debug
Turn on debugging output
-q, --quiet
Turn off status messages
-u, --unpack
Unpack a firmware image
-p, --pack
Pack a firmware image
-l, --little
Convert Kernel and Ramdisk to little-endian
-i, --input
Input firmware image filename
-o, --output
Output firmware image filename
-b, --redboot
Input/Output RedBoot filename
-k, --kernel
Input/Ouptut Kernel filename
-s, --sysconf
Input/Output SysConf filename
-r, --ramdisk
Input/Output Ramdisk filename(s)
-f, --fisdir
Input/Output FIS directory filename
-y, --payload
Input/Output Payload filename
-t, --trailer
Input/Output Trailer filename
-e, --ethaddr
Set the Ethernet address
AUTHOR
This man page was written by Joey Hess, <joey@kitenet.net>.
SLUGIMAGE(1)