IPMI Channel Config Removed?

[Patrick Venture]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 12:51 PM Vernon Mauery
<vernon.mauery at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On 22-Feb-2019 09:55 AM, Patrick Venture wrote:
> >It looks like the channel config for IPMI was removed from the
> >sources.  Instead the channel layer is doing something by checking
> >with the sysfs device instances -- and there's some mapping (I haven't
> >dug into it).
>
> IPMI channels are configured with a JSON file that lives in
> /usr/share/ipmi-providers/channel_config.json on the BMC. The default
> file in yocto-land lives at
> meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-config/channel_config.json
> and can be overridden with bbappend.
>
> >I'd like to know if I need to do anything to configure the channels
> >such that eth1 is channel 1, and eth0 is channel 0?  Or Did that
> >change?  Can I make eth1 channel 5?
>
> Making your own config is as easy as overriding the default with
> bitbake.

Thanks, I'll take a look at setting that up for the platforms.

>
> >All our platforms were using channel configs, and quanta-q71l upstream
> >was too, so I'd like some explanation as I don't remember seeing an
> >email about it when it was dropped.
>
> I don't recall if there was an email, but several months back, there
> were user/channel config reviews out that slowly got merged in.

Reviews notwithstanding, in the future it would be appreciate if when
something like that is changed, a five line announcement email would
be appreciated.

>
> --Vernon