Quanta requests to create a repo in OpenBMC github

[Patrick Venture]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 1:06 AM Andrei Kartashev <a.kartashev at yadro.com> wrote:
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> > This daemon is intended to be used in combination with
> > phosphor-pid-control. You define a configuration file with two
> > sections: sensors and zones.
> >
> > Sensors have a D-Bus path to read from along with a target
> > temperature
> > and some other parameters. The daemon subtracks the current
> > temperature from the target temperature to get the "margin". A
> > smaller
> > margin means the temperature is closer to the limit.
> >
> > Zones group sensors together and look for the worst (lowest) margin
> > value within that group. This value is then exported for use in
> > phosphor-pid-control.
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> I wonder, isn't phosphor-pid-control do the same by its own? How does
> it works inside pid-control daemon, when you set several thermal
> sensors for one Zone an set setpoint for each of them?

Not sure what your question is, but yes, the pid-control daemon can
host its own margin sensor values that are populated externally,
however this is only supported via the json configuration at present.

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> Best regards,
> Andrei Kartashev
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