IKVM on AST2400

[Joel Stanley]

Hi Alexander,

On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 12:03, Alexander A. Filippov
<a.filippov at yadro.com> wrote:
>
> Some time ago the obmc-ikvm service was added to the firmware. It causes some
> problems on our VESNIN hardware. As it based on AST2400 it does not have support
> for IKVM in the DTS. The system log contains messages that create_usbhid.sh is
> unable to find some items in the sysfs and then obmc-ikvm service crashes. It
> causes fail in QEMU_CI test.
>
> I belive that this issue also present on other platforms based on AST2400.
>
> IBM Guys: Do you run tests for Palmetto?
> Is there anybody else who uses AST2400?

I am not sure that anyone has tested it on ast2400. If it works, we
can enable it for palmetto.

>
> Well, my proposal is to make the IKVM support optional by moving it to the
> distrofeature.
>
> Besides, I've solved these problems for our hardware by adding required kernel
> modules and modifying DTS.
> IKVM works, but bring a lot of warnings after the host was shut down while the
> VNC-client is still connected.
>
> During the solving I copied some records from aspeed-g5.dtsi to aspeed-g4.dtsi.
> Should I commit these changes to Torvalds or OpenBMC repo?

Send them to mainline (Torvalds).

Thanks,

Joel