Storing host data on the BMC

[Deepak Kodihalli]

On 29/05/20 4:27 pm, Sunitha Harish wrote:
> 
> On 22-05-2020 09:29, Sunitha Harish wrote:
>>
>> On 21-05-2020 10:46, Deepak Kodihalli wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> If i am getting it correctly , the current changes which were made to 
>> the phosphor-settings-manager should be good enough to handle all the 
>> scenarios.
>>
>> In my last email i mentioned that ===>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>
>> When the Ethernet interface set to be DHCP enabled ( by setting the 
>> Bios attribute DHCPEnabled = true via redfish), the IPAddress, 
>> SubnetMask and Gateway along with the Origin property will not be Bios 
>> settings. Here the user setting is the DHCPEnabled property of ?
>>
>> However in the case of Static IP configuration(IPAddress, SubnetMask 
>> and Gateway) they will become bios setting.
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>
>> Currently we are using the xyz.openbmc_project.Network.IP and this 
>> interface is being implemented by settings object - 
>> https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/#/c/openbmc/meta-ibm/+/30424/
>> Do you see any issue here?
> 
> Hi , any feedback ?

Sorry I forgot to respond to this. If your question is whether the 
Origin property (and the interface it lies in) can be implemented by 
phosphor-settingsd, then I think the answer is yes. We did say that we 
can look at phosphor-settingsd as an arbitrary data holder (not limited 
to user settings).

> Thanks & regards,
> Sunitha
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Deepak
>>>