From: clg@kaod.org (Cédric Le Goater)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] misc: Add Aspeed BT IPMI host driver
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 08:51:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e2658cc-7089-abd2-23b3-ffd468edbd11@kaod.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7db5ada0-49ea-55eb-089e-d979941ceff5@gmail.com>
On 09/12/2016 10:33 PM, Corey Minyard wrote:
> On 09/12/2016 02:15 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Monday, September 12, 2016 1:55:40 PM CEST Corey Minyard wrote:
>>> On 09/02/2016 08:22 AM, C?dric Le Goater wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Adding Corey in cc: . I guess I should have done that in the first place.
>>> Yes, probably so. I've been travelling and didn't see it on the mailing
>>> lists until now.
>>>
>>> There is already a BT driver in the kernel, in drivers/char/ipmi, why
>>> won't that work?
>> The new driver is the host side (running on the BMC), the existing one
>> is the client (running on the PC).
>>
>> Arnd
>
> Ok, that's not really clear from the documentation or the Kconfig.
> In the IPMI spec the "host" side is the computer side, not the BMC
> side. Like:
>
> 11.6.1 BT Host Interface Registers
> The Host BT interface provides an independent set of registers and
> interrupts to allow the Host driver to
> communicate with the baseboard management controller without
> conflicting with the O/S ACPI driver.
>
> In light of that, this should probably be named the bt-bmc driver.
>
> I haven't reviewed this in detail, but I'm ok with putting it in
> drivers/char/ipmi. The state machine part looks reasonably
> generic. The configuration part isn't, but that could be split
> out later if necessary.
what do you mean by configuration ? I am ready to send a v2. May be
I can add a few other things.
Thanks,
C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-15 6:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-31 17:24 [PATCH 0/3] ARM: aspeed: add support for the BT IPMI host device Cédric Le Goater
2016-08-31 17:24 ` [PATCH 1/3] misc: Add Aspeed BT IPMI host driver Cédric Le Goater
2016-08-31 19:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-02 13:22 ` Cédric Le Goater
2016-09-12 18:55 ` Corey Minyard
2016-09-12 19:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-12 20:33 ` Corey Minyard
2016-09-12 21:23 ` Cédric Le Goater
2016-09-12 22:06 ` Corey Minyard
2016-09-15 6:51 ` Cédric Le Goater [this message]
2016-09-15 12:23 ` Corey Minyard
2016-08-31 17:24 ` [PATCH 2/3] ARM: aspeed: Add defconfigs for CONFIG_ASPEED_BT_IPMI_HOST Cédric Le Goater
2016-08-31 17:24 ` [PATCH 3/3] ARM: dts: aspeed: Enable BT IPMI host device Cédric Le Goater
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