Feedback on Current OpenBMC and Proposing Some Improvements

[Alex Qiu]

As promised, I made a runnable Python 3 demo to illustrate my ideas:
https://github.com/alex310110/bmc-proto-20q2

Thank you!

- Alex Qiu


On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 2:40 PM Alex Qiu <xqiu at google.com> wrote:

> 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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