SATA hotplug notifications for BMC inventory updates

Paul Fertser fercerpav at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 18:32:58 AEST 2022


Hello Johnathan,

On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 07:36:08AM -0700, Johnathan Mantey wrote:
>>> RAID solutions are outside of scope for the Intel BMC.
>>
>> Intel VROC too? Why? We'd be willing to contribute some development
>> effort into bringing RAID monitoring and management to OpenBMC,
>> wouldn't the community benefit from that? Many other vendors
>> currently offer this feature, why shouldn't OpenBMC? The problem
>> seems to be with the documentation availability; can you please
>> tell where the relevant hardware and protocols are described?
> 
> Paul, this question now crosses a demarcation line. As a contract
> worker I'm not comfortable discussing the topics you raise in that
> paragraph.

I'm not fluent in business slang so I take it you mean the feature
might be nice but Intel doesn't want the OpenBMC community to have
it. Well, too bad.

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