OpenBMC on RCS platforms - remote media

[Joseph Reynolds]

On 4/28/21 3:21 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Milton Miller II" <miltonm at us.ibm.com>
>> To: "Timothy Pearson" <tpearson at raptorengineering.com>
>> Cc: "Patrick Williams" <patrick at stwcx.xyz>, "openbmc" <openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org>
>> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2021 4:42:16 PM
>> Subject: RE: OpenBMC on RCS platforms
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>>> I just need to launch a GUI tool with host administrative privileges,
>>> select the upgrade file, and queue an upgrade to happen when I reboot
>>> the machine.  I queue the update, start the reboot, and stick around
>>> to see the upgrade progress on the screen while it's booting back up.
>>> Because I can see the status on the screen, I know what is happening
>>> and don't pull the power plug due to only seeing a black screen and
>>> power LED for 10 minutes.  Finally, the machine loads the OS and I
>>> verify the new control widget is working properly.
>> If the gui is on the host, with todays stock phosphor-initfs, you need
>> 1) a connection from the host to the bmc
>>    ethernet, serial, usb ethernet etc
>>    (to copy files from host to BMC RAM and to monitor command output)
> Precisely.  USB would be an interesting control channel, but I don't think OpenBMC currently supports this kind of access?

If (if) I am following correctly, you want the OpenBMC virtual media 
(aka remote media) implementation?
https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/master/designs/virtual-media.md

Is there an implementation?  I didn't find one listed here:
https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/master/features.md

- Joseph