Inconsistent initial deployment for Protectli boards

[macpijan]

Component

Dasharo firmware, Dasharo documentation

Device

Protectli VP2440

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Brief summary

For some boards, we suggest to flash only BIOS region, for some - the whole flash.

We do ship full binaries already. Isn't it more beneficial and reproducible to flash the whole image always?

https://docs.dasharo.com/unified/protectli/initial-deployment/#flashing-dasharo

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[philipanda]

I wonder if the newest releases for every model of Protectli do include all required regions?

Even if so it could be risky to tell to flash the whole binary. If someone would wish to flash an older version which does not include all the regions they could brick their device. That also applies to the already existing documentations that tell to do that.

I think it would be best to include a warning before the flashing instructions, that if one would like to flash some historic release, they should think twice and know what they're doing before flashing the whole binary. Or warn say that the instructions might not be working on historic releases.

That's only after we confirm that every single one of the up-to-date binaries includes all the regions.