Dell - Internal Use - Confidential We are in the process of churning the DSU repository, it will be made available as soon as possible.
Thanks, Kalyan. -----Original Message----- From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of Kilian Cavalotti Sent: 08 January 2018 21:27 To: Ponnandi, Soorej <[email protected]> Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] dsu woes On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 1:43 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > The DSU repository is refreshed once in every month. I believe the BIOS > v2.7.0 was released couple of days back. The next DSU repository with this > latest BIOS update will be available by end of next week. Oh come on, seriously? Don't you guys think that the current situation is serious enough to warrant a repository update a bit sooner? I mean, even Microsoft released their patches out of their usual Patch Tuesday release cycle. Please don't invoke quality control or any kind of testing, we all know here from experience that it's not DSU's strong suit... It's especially damning because here, DSU is trying to revert an updated BIOS to a vulnerable version. It's both insulting when sysadmins took care of manually updating the BIOS, and just awkward for brand new servers that are delivered with up-to-date firmware. In that specific case, DSU does not just cause annoyances or mere technical issues, it actually makes server vulnerable (again!) to the most serious security issue the industry faced in years, which should be treated with the utmost importance by the DSU engineering teams, not dismissed as yet another regular firmware update. Message to Dell management: do you guys have any plans to make your server firmware management tools usable again? Right now, they're a liability to both your customers and your brand. Please let us know when you finally decide to address the year-long outstanding issues with that "tool", whereas they're out-of-date firmware in the repository, month-long delays to fix reported issues, or just plain broken behavior, and we'll consider buying Dell servers again. Cheers, -- Kilian _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
