entity manager configurations and dbus interfaces

[Ed Tanous]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 8:43 AM Andrei Kartashev <a.kartashev at yadro.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Can you go into more specifics about what you don't like about it?  I
know a lot of the complaints I've heard revolves around documentation.
I'm trying to hammer away at that as I get time.  Is there any other
low hanging fruit that we can fix that's entity-manager specific?

>
> 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
> --
> Best regards,
> Andrei Kartashev
>
>