Storing host data on the BMC

[Deepak Kodihalli]

On 21/05/20 10:42 am, Sunitha Harish wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Any inputs?
> 
> Thanks & regards,
> Sunitha

Hi Sunitha,

I believe you had got a direction based on the discussion below.

>>>> As far as Sunitha's question goes, my point is that not all host
>>>> firmware generated data is a BIOS attribute. For eg if the host 
>>>> tells me
>>>> about the presence of certain FRUs, or their functional states, I
>>>> wouldn't want to store those in the BIOS attributes backend, I'd rather
>>>> associates those with the existing D-Bus interfaces for the FRU
>>>> inventory. I think the same applies to the Origin property that has 
>>>> been
>>>> described - associate with the networking D-Bus backend.
>>> I think we're in agreement here.  Data which is interesting to represent
>>> on the BMC, for which we already have a defined-interface, use it.  For
>>> data which isn't interesting the to BMC, use the generic BIOS attribute
>>> table.

^^ You use existing (or come up with new) D-Bus interfaces to represent 
your data. Those D-Bus interfaces can be implemented by settingsd or 
networkd or something else.

Thanks,
Deepak