SuperMicro IPMI Rebuild Successful»

I’ve now hit the point where I can sucessfully extract and rebuild an IPMI firmware image. I’ve figured out all the checksum algorithms and have some educated guesses about where things go. I’ve been testing by extracting and rebuilding the stock interface, and the rebuilt image matches the original exactly.

At this point I can now begin modifying things within the firmware.

$ ./read_header.py --extract SMT_313.bin
Read 16777216 bytes
Bootloader md5 matches, this parser will probably work!
Dumping bootloader to data/bootloader.bin

Firmware image: 2 Name: 1stFS Base: 0x40180000 Length: 0x7be000 (8118272) Load: 0xd00000 Exec: 0xd00000 Image Checksum: 0xaec12c0a Signature: 0xa0ffff9f Type: file (0x8) Footer Checksum: 0x279680c7 * footer checksum matches
Dumping 0x1572864 to 0x9691136 to data/1stFS.bin
Image checksum matches

Firmware image: 3 Name: kernel Base: 0x40980000 Length: 0x112aa8 (1125032) Load: 0x8000 Exec: 0x8000 Image Checksum: 0x9cccf523 Signature: 0xa0ffff9f Type: active, copy2ram, exec, compressed (0x17) Footer Checksum: 0x13160eaa * footer checksum matches
Dumping 0x9961472 to 0x11086504 to data/kernel.bin
Image checksum matches

Firmware image: 4 Name: 2ndFS Base: 0x40b80000 Length: 0x1e1000 (1970176) Load: 0xd00000 Exec: 0xd00000 Image Checksum: 0x9a9c1cac Signature: 0xa0ffff9f Type: file (0x8) Footer Checksum: 0x3b896522 * footer checksum matches
Dumping 0x12058624 to 0x14028800 to data/2ndFS.bin
Image checksum matches

Firmware footer version 3.19 checksum: 0x9f29618c tag: 0x7117
Firmware checksum matches

$ cat data/image.ini
[flash]
total_size = 16777216

[global]
major_version = 3
minor_version = 19

[images]
2 = present
3 = present
4 = present

[image_2]
length = 0x7be000
base_addr = 0x40180000
load_addr = 0xd00000
exec_addr = 0xd00000
name = 1stFS
type = 0x8

[image_3]
length = 0x112aa8
base_addr = 0x40980000
load_addr = 0x8000
exec_addr = 0x8000
name = kernel
type = 0x17

[image_4]
length = 0x1e1000
base_addr = 0x40b80000
load_addr = 0xd00000
exec_addr = 0xd00000
name = 2ndFS
type = 0x8

$ ./rebuild_image.py
Writing bootloader...
Processing image 2
Processing image 3
Processing image 4
Done!

$ md5sum SMT_313.bin ./data/rebuilt_image.bin
3d0df15822decbf5c1322443b6812bfc  SMT_313.bin
3d0df15822decbf5c1322443b6812bfc  ./data/rebuilt_image.bin