Power Supply Cold Redundancy

[Brandon Wyman]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 7:13 AM Brad Bishop <bradleyb at fuzziesquirrel.com> wrote:
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> > On Dec 19, 2019, at 10:15 PM, Lei YU <mine260309 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 10:31 AM Yang, Cheng C
> > <cheng.c.yang at linux.intel.com> wrote:
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> >> Originally, I also thought I may push my code to phosphor-power, but
> >> when I was trying to devtool modify phosphor-power, I found a error happen
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> >> ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'openpower-dbus-interfaces' (but
> >> /home/cyang29/openbmc-openbmc/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/power/phosphor-power_git.bb
> >> DEPENDS on or otherwise requires it).
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> >> We do not use openpower-dbus-interfaces.
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> > Right, that is a problem, and the good news is that Matt is already moving
> > openpower-dbus-interfaces into phosphor-dbus-interfaces
> > (https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/phosphor-dbus-interfaces/+/27380),
> > so it will be no problem in future :)
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> This ^ does help but I don’t think its the whole story.  It sounds like phosphor-power needs a meson option to turn off its dependency on org.openpower dbus interfaces…regardless of what repository is providing those.
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> Going a step further - what are the org.openpower interfaces that phosphor-power depends on anyway?  Can they just be moved to xyz.openbmc_project?
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> -brad

I am not looking to chase anyone away from phosphor-power, but I do
recall seeing some power supply related commits in x86-power-control,
which seems to be some intel related repository.
https://github.com/openbmc/x86-power-control/commits/master