IPMI - get device ID

[Dave Cobbley]

Sounds great!

Looking forward to seeing the pull request in gerrit.


Thanks,

-Dave


On 10/27/2017 04:52 AM, tomjose wrote:
> Hello Dave,
>
> https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/495
>
> We had this issue open to fix the hardcoded Product ID, Manufacturing 
> ID..etc. Since these fields are IPMI specific, we do not plan to 
> create D-Bus properties for that.
>
> The solution we have in mind is to have these values specified in a 
> yaml in the openbmc machine specific layer. This gives the advantage 
> that we have these values as machine specific and can be taken care at 
> compile time. We would add code in phosphor-host-ipmid, to generate 
> code out of this yaml file and serve the Get Device ID command.
>
> Dinesh is working on this and he would share the code on gerrit to 
> solicit your feedback. Let me know your thoughts.
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
> On Thursday 26 October 2017 10:29 PM, Dave Cobbley wrote:
>> I noticed a bit of the get-device-id information in 
>> phosphor-ipmi-host/apphandler is hard coded.
>>
>> Much of this info should be determined at compile time - would the 
>> inventory manager be the appropriate place that all platforms under 
>> the OpenBMC umbrella would like to store this information?
>>
>> •   Device ID
>> •   Device Revision
>> •   IANA
>> •   Product ID
>> •   Auxiliary
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Dave Cobbley
>>
>