[Bug 1393918] [NEW] [SRU] Add ability to set BMC boot flag valid bit clearing to chassis bootparm

[Jorge Niedbalski]

Public bug reported:

[Description]

In versions of ipmitool earlier than 1.8.14, setting the boot device to
PXE does not work correctly. (You have to reboot within 60 seconds for
it to apply - and that only works for some corner cases.)

With this patch, bootflag options can be set or cleared using:
chassis bootparam set bootflag device options={PEF, timeout, watchdog, reset, power}. Using the prefix of "no-" on any of the options sets it the other way. As part of this change, I also cleaned up the command line parsing and added messages for set bootflag

[Test Cases]

* With this patch bootflag options can be set or cleared by using
chassis bootparam set bootflag device options={PEF, timeout, watchdog,
reset, power}

** Affects: ipmitool (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  [SRU] Add ability to set BMC boot flag valid bit clearing to chassis
  bootparm

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