From: Heyi Guo <guoheyi@linux.alibaba.com>
To: openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Zhikui Ren <zhikui.ren@intel.com>,
Jae Hyun Yoo <jae.hyun.yoo@linux.intel.com>,
Vernon Mauery <vernon.mauery@linux.intel.com>,
Ed Tanous <ed@tanous.net>, Josh Lehan <krellan@google.com>,
Ed Tanous <edtanous@google.com>,
Patrick Venture <venture@google.com>
Subject: Re: Does it make sense to create a centralized fan control module?
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 10:02:16 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <71dfdfc0-1eff-efb6-094c-de71f6f8cc87@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3c72ee05-ec56-96ca-55da-6517307cd6a7@linux.alibaba.com>
Hi All,
Any comments for my questions at the top of this thread?
Thanks,
Heyi
On 2021/6/11 上午9:23, Heyi Guo wrote:
> Please ignore my early emails; only this one is the final version. I
> must have misused some shortcut key to send the unfinished versions
> while I wanted to save it locally...
>
> Sorry for the noise.
>
> Heyi
>
> On 2021/6/11 上午9:14, Heyi Guo wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Right now fan related data like tacho and PWM is fetched in
>> dbus-sensors, and published to d-bus as sensor data, while fan
>> control is made in another module like pid-control, which can fetch
>> data and set value via d-bus.
>>
>> In some common sense, we may think about putting all fan related work
>> into one single module (which may be based on pid-control), i.e. it
>> can read tacho and PWM from hardware directly, calculate the required
>> PWM by some algorithm like PID, and then write to PWM hardware
>> directly; the data will also be published to d-bus for other modules
>> to consume, like fansensor from dbus-sensors.
>>
>> Does it make sense to do that? Or is there any reason for the current
>> design?
>>
>> I'm new to OpenBMC and some of my understanding may be totally wrong.
>>
>> Looking forward to your expert advice.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Heyi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-16 2:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-11 1:14 Does it make sense to create a centralized fan control module? Heyi Guo
2021-06-11 1:23 ` Heyi Guo
2021-06-16 2:02 ` Heyi Guo [this message]
2021-06-16 2:49 ` [Phishing Risk] [External] " John Wang
2021-06-16 11:03 ` Heyi Guo
2021-06-16 16:26 ` Ed Tanous
2021-06-20 8:48 ` Heyi Guo
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