system power control

[Bills, Jason M]

On 8/6/2020 11:43 PM, Zhao Kun wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I’m new to learn how to make OpenBMC work on a X86 based system. 
> Currently I met a problem of mapping the GPIOs about power 
> on/off/reset/status into OpenBMC logic. I understand when user issue a 
> power on request through any user interfaces like RESTful, IPMI, etc., 
> some service (phosphor-state-manager?) will be triggered to check 
> current status and roll out corresponding systemd services to do the 
> job. (please correct me if I’m wrong)
> 
> But I’m just confused on how those services actually toggle or check the 
> GPIOs, there seems be many choices,
> 
>  1. Device tree?
>  2. Using Workbook gpio_defs.json?
>  3. Create some services calling platform specific scripts to operate
>     GPIO or I2C devices?
>  4. Using x86-power-control?
> 
> So what’s the most recommended way to do it? Really appreciated If 
> anyone can share some lights.
On Intel reference platforms, we use x86-power-control and configure the 
GPIO names using device tree.

> 
> I thought there must be a mechanism to consume some kind of 
> configuration file as the hardware abstraction layer. So I guess it 
> might be gpio_defs.json or device tree.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Kun Zhao
> 
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