entity manager configurations and dbus interfaces

[Andrei Kartashev]

Hi Brad,

Thank for bring up this question.
Same as you we have slightly bad view on EM architecture since before
we had only Power-based platforms and now we are working on our first
x86-based one.

Following up the discussion in the review and also mailing discussion
we had early, I now preparing some Implementation Proposal document for
EM-based inventory. I gonna to submit it to docs repo for discussing
and finding our common understanding of how it supposed to be.


On Thu, 2020-09-24 at 10:30 -0400, Brad Bishop wrote:
> Hi Ed
> 
> Will quote a comment from this EM review:
> 
> https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/36702
> 
> > entity-manager was designed with the tenant that it config files
> > have 
> > no knowledge of dbus.
> 
> FWIW I had no idea this was the case.
> 
> > We've broken that a little with the inventory interfaces on the
> > entity 
> > as a short term patch to gain some compatibility, but its easy
> > enough 
> > to roll back in the future.
> 
> Interesting - so there is a vision here, but I have no idea what it
> is.  
> Can you elaborate on how you envision inventory working if EM is not 
> implementing the inventory dbus interfaces?
> 
> thx - brad
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Best regards,
Andrei Kartashev