Intel-BMC: Fan control

[Vijay Khemka]

On 4/24/20, 11:40 AM, "openbmc on behalf of James Feist" <openbmc-bounces+vijaykhemka=fb.com at lists.ozlabs.org on behalf of james.feist at linux.intel.com> wrote:

    On 4/24/2020 10:41 AM, Vijay Khemka wrote:
    > I can’t comment for Intel-bmc but in openbmc, entity manager supports 
    > for phosphor-fan-control and yaml config is not required if there is EM 
    > config available.
    
    Slight correction, phosphor-pid-control is what EM supports, and there 
    is no yaml config required. It does not use phosphor-fan-control.

Thanks James for correcting, yes it is pid control
    
    
    > 
    > *From: *openbmc <openbmc-bounces+vijaykhemka=fb.com at lists.ozlabs.org> on 
    > behalf of Matthew Barth <msbarth at linux.ibm.com>
    > *Date: *Friday, April 24, 2020 at 8:08 AM
    > *To: *Patrick Voelker <Patrick_Voelker at phoenix.com>, "OpenBMC 
    > (openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org)" <openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org>
    > *Subject: *Re: Intel-BMC: Fan control
    > 
    > No, phosphor-fan-control is currently driven by yaml configs at build 
    > time. There is work slated to enable use of runtime json configs for 
    > phosphor-fan-control.
    > 
    > I believe entity-manager can be used to provide config data to the 
    > phosphor-pid-control fan control application though.
    > 
    > On 4/23/20 6:48 PM, Patrick Voelker wrote:
    > 
    >     Fan control related question for Intel-BMC: Do the entity-manager
    >     tachs, PWMs, and zones inform phosphor-fan-control? Or is
    >     phosphor-fan-control driven purely from the yaml configurations at
    >     build time?
    >