Feedback on Current OpenBMC and Proposing Some Improvements

[Alex Qiu]

Just sent out the additional email threads. You can also find them in these
links:

Feedback on Current OpenBMC and Proposing Some Improvements ----
Difficulties and Issue Examples:
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2020-June/022065.html

Feedback on Current OpenBMC and Proposing Some Improvements ----
"Improvements" Ideas:
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2020-June/022067.html

Thank you!

- Alex Qiu


On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 2:25 PM Alex Qiu <xqiu at google.com> wrote:

> Hi OpenBMC community,
>
> It has been a while since Google has adopted the dynamic software stack of
> OpenBMC, namely using entity-manager for FRU discovery, dbus-sensors for
> sensor reading, and intel-ipmi-oem for IPMI command handling. We discovered
> issues and limitations with this dynamic software stack along the way, so
> I’m proposing some ideas on how OpenBMC may improve, which may lead to
> detailed designs about it. Let me call it "Improvements" in this email per
> say. I think the highlight of these ideas are: 1) having a robust framework
> to handle hardware topology, and 2) having accommodations for code to
> intervene on varieties of BMC tasks.
>
>
> I'll split the content of this topic into two additional emails for easier
> digestion: 1) Difficulties and Issue Examples; 2) "Improvements" Ideas. The
> main discussion may still stay in this thread.
>
>
> Since this is a big architectural change compared to the existing dynamic
> software stack, I would like to hear feedback or review on the conceptual
> ideas before we turn these ideas into more concrete designs or prototypes.
> On the other hand, there is a high probability that I didn’t express my
> idea well enough to understand, and there may be a language barrier to get
> over. I’ll try to see if I can use some code to make a tiny prototype to
> illustrate the ideas better at some point. Thank you!
>
>
> - Alex Qiu
>
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