PLDM design proposal

[Deepak Kodihalli]

On 19/12/18 5:41 AM, Ben Wei wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I've put down some thoughts below on an initial PLDM design on OpenBMC.
>>> Thie structure of the document is based on the OpenBMC design template.
>>> Please review and let me know your feedback. Once we've had a discussion
>>> here on the list, I can move this to Gerrit with some more details. I'd
>>> say reading the MCTP proposal from Jeremy should be a precursor to
>>> reading this.
> 
> Hi Deepak,
> 
> Do you see any issues with running PLDM over NCSI/RBT?
> If the NCSI daemon implements the same in-process callbacks as the MCTP daemon,
> (or if it supports the same D-Bus interface which takes PLDM payload and encapsulate it as NCSI commands)

Nothing jumps out as a problem with this.

> Also do you have plans on which PLDM functionalities to implement first?
> I'm looking at creating a prototype user library for PLDM firmware update would love to collaborate.

That sounds great! PLDM platform monitoring and BIOS are likely to be 
first on our list in terms of the order of implementation.  I did see 
some code being dropped at facebook/openbmc, related to PLDM firmware 
upgrade. Is that a prototype and/or do you eventually plan to drop that 
openbmc as well? I'd love to hear feedback from you on the high level 
design that I sent. I'm planning to push that to Gerrit, so you could 
review there as well.

>   Thanks!
> -Ben
>