Dynamic Configuration of phosphor-host-ipmid sensors

[Tom Joseph]

If you are pursuing a run-time configuration for the sensors, my 
preference will be a json.
On OpenPower systems the sensors numbers are fixed between the BIOS and 
BMC. So json will
give a provision to share the sensor numbers and SDR info between the 
two parties.

Right now the sensor yaml's are generated from a machine readable 
workbook(MRW) using scripts.
(https://github.com/openbmc/phosphor-mrw-tools). Once this switches to 
json, script has to take
care of that. It will generate extra work for some of the OpenPower systems.

On Tuesday 23 July 2019 03:58 AM, Patrick Venture wrote:
> I was curious if anyone has patches to do either:
> 1) configure phosphor-host-ipmid's sensor list with json; or
> 2) configure phosphor-host-ipmid's sensor list with entity-manager,
> s.t. it builds the SDRs from the Configuration namespace?
>
> Is there a preference along this path because we're going to need to
> move to dynamically configured sensors for phosphor-host-ipmid?
>
> Patrick
>