OpenBMC and Redfish - intro

[Stewart Smith]

Chris Austen <austenc at us.ibm.com> writes:
> Well that is a loaded subject line!
>
> We have talked for a while about wanting to support the DMTF Redfish REST
> interface.  Support would allow operators to adhere to a growing industry
> standard and allow communities such as OCP (Open Compute Project) a
> platform to put in to practice their profiles.  I think Operators and API
> developers would also appreciate the interface.

AS someone who's likely to consume it (via our test infrastructure for
OpenPOWER firmware), I'm really keen to see it.

I know at least one other BMC implementation we interact with is doing
RedFish, and it'd be good to have only one set of code to talk to BMCs,
rather than the current situation.

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.