ipmi-fru-parser + entity-manager

[Patrick Venture]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 9:42 AM James Feist <james.feist at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/23/2019 7:20 AM, Patrick Venture wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 6:34 PM Benjamin Fair <benjaminfair at google.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 3:25 PM Patrick Venture <venture at google.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Does entity-manager manage the FRU eeprom devices?  Or does one still
> >>> need to configure ipmi-fru-parser, etc?
> >>>
> >>> Patrick
> >>
> >> There is a FRU parser shipped with entity-manager which searches for
> >> FRU EEPROMs and attempts to read them:
> >> https://github.com/openbmc/entity-manager/blob/master/src/FruDevice.cpp
> >
> > I saw that, but is that a replacement for the support provided by
> > ipmi-fru-parser?  I'm assuming yes, I just want an authoritative,
> > "yes, you get this and don't worry about ipmi-fru-parser when using
> > entity-manager."
> >
> I haven't used ipmi-fru-parser, so I'm not sure. Basically fru-device
> scans all i2c channels, looks for things that 'look like a fru' and
> populates them on d-bus. It doesn't do much more than that.
> Entity-manager can then "probe" it's properties and load configurations.
> If that is what ipmi-fru-parser does then it might be a replacement.

Thanks.  ipmi-fru-parser parses a configuration file and if it knows
about the FRU via hard-coded information, it'll populate it on dbus.
So, it sounds like the same effect in the end.

>
> -James