To add a new interface for timed power on feature

[Lei YU]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 8:22 PM Brad Bishop <bradleyb at fuzziesquirrel.com> wrote:
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> > On Dec 9, 2019, at 4:49 AM, Lei YU <mine260309 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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`
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> 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?

OK, so let's put it in `/xyz/openbmc_project`.
The feature is just estimated and planned, we will start to work on it soon.