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On Mon, 2017-01-09 at 10:22 +1030, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> Alternatively, in the style of your first para, we could push the
> host
> CPU state management into the kernel and expose a boot/reboot/power-
> off 
> API to userspace. That would give us a place to hook calls for
> configuring and cleaning up any host-dependent drivers on the BMC.

That's nasty. Each machine has a subtly different way of controller
host power, that would mean a different kernel driver for each of them,
which we are trying to avoid.

This is userspace policy.

Cheers,
Ben.