Intel-ipmi-oem repo

[Ed Tanous]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 11:40 AM Brad Bishop
<bradleyb at fuzziesquirrel.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 09:38:05AM -0800, Vernon Mauery wrote:
> >On 14-Jan-2021 08:38 AM, Ed Tanous wrote:
>
> >>Would people prefer it to be a package config on IPMID to select between
> >>the two implementations?
> >
> >I don't have a problem with a package config to select sensor
> >implementations.
>
> This seems fine to me too.  I looked and there are non-POWER users of
> the fixed sensor id implementation too so openpower-ipmi-oem probably
> doesn't make good sense.
>
> >I would say that if IBM is the only company using the sensor
> >implementation that is currently in ipmid, it would be best to move it
> >to the IBM OEM layer. But it is difficult in a project this size who
> >is using what.
>
> 'grep yaml-config' of the openbmc tree gives a pretty decent indicator
> of who is using the fixed sensor ID implementation.
>
> -brad

It's been on my list for a while to write a script to go build at
least rudimentary ported entity-manager configs for the existing
hardware in the tree.  I'd asked James to write this a few times in
the past, but as we know, we all get busy.  This is just to say, it's
on my radar to try to try to make this better.

-Ed