Control / Operator panel support in systems

[Jinu Thomas]

Hi All,

  I have been working on the design and this is what i have zeroed at.

 The design aims to accommodate a panel that provides buttons used for navigation and selection of functionality and a display used for visual interaction to the user.

 The design is divided into two parts.

  - First part is to have a navigational user select-able section. This would mean the navigation coming from the hardware in terms of buttons. these will be used to perform the required functionality selected by the user.

  - Second part is to have a display section. The display side will be common for all BMC apps, it will be done via Dbus API hosted by this app. 

@brad
 Need a Repository created.
  
   I don't think there is any hardware like this out there, so do not see or expect any overlap with the rest of the community, i will be thinking of using ibm_misc or ibm_oem as the repository. 

Thoughts and suggestions are welcome.

Regards,
Jinu Joy


On 27/08/19 11:06 pm, Jinu Thomas wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>  I was starting to explore on the design for the operator panel seen on IBM systems, it is also called a control panel , which basically is a card unit which has an LCD and some buttons to navigate the display on the LCD. I wanted to check if there is any design or code out there, for such  kind of usage. The design/code can be checked to see if it can be made generic for use, even though the hardware is only used by IBM.
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> Jinu Joy
>