To add a new interface for timed power on feature

[Brad Bishop]

> On Dec 9, 2019, at 4:49 AM, Lei YU <mine260309 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This email is to introduce a new interface to be added to
> phosphor-dbus-interfaces, and ask for feedback where it should be
> placed into.
> 
> There is a feature Timed-Power-On (TPO), that host could schedule a
> timer to BMC to power on the host.
> For BMC there will be a service to handle the above case, and the plan
> is to add a new interface to represent the timer (actually a date) for
> TPO.
> 
> It could look like:
> /org/open_power/TimedPowerOn/Epoch.interface.yaml
> Where it defines the epoch time when the host is going to be powered on.
> 
> The question is, is this feature common for other systems?
> If yes, I would like to put it in `/xyz/openbmc_project`, instead of
> `/org/open_power`

It is just an interface, and one that doesn’t have anything to do with POWER hardware, so I don’t see a problem with putting it in the xyz namespace.  Do you already have an implementation plan?

thx - brad