From: Ed Tanous <ed@tanous.net>
To: Andrei Kartashev <a.kartashev@yadro.com>
Cc: OpenBMC Maillist <openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org>,
Brad Bishop <bradleyb@fuzziesquirrel.com>
Subject: Re: entity manager configurations and dbus interfaces
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 08:54:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACWQX83msYLyZxcNfoMKWd5LmoQ+OZpK302=irPedea46ziZrw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d4761f08a2beca775827171d4d1934cd76641cb5.camel@yadro.com>
On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 8:43 AM Andrei Kartashev <a.kartashev@yadro.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Brad,
>
> Thank for bring up this question.
> Same as you we have slightly bad view on EM architecture since before
> we had only Power-based platforms and now we are working on our first
> x86-based one.
Can you go into more specifics about what you don't like about it? I
know a lot of the complaints I've heard revolves around documentation.
I'm trying to hammer away at that as I get time. Is there any other
low hanging fruit that we can fix that's entity-manager specific?
>
> Following up the discussion in the review and also mailing discussion
> we had early, I now preparing some Implementation Proposal document for
> EM-based inventory. I gonna to submit it to docs repo for discussing
> and finding our common understanding of how it supposed to be.
>
>
> On Thu, 2020-09-24 at 10:30 -0400, Brad Bishop wrote:
> > Hi Ed
> >
> > Will quote a comment from this EM review:
> >
> > https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/36702
> >
> > > entity-manager was designed with the tenant that it config files
> > > have
> > > no knowledge of dbus.
> >
> > FWIW I had no idea this was the case.
> >
> > > We've broken that a little with the inventory interfaces on the
> > > entity
> > > as a short term patch to gain some compatibility, but its easy
> > > enough
> > > to roll back in the future.
> >
> > Interesting - so there is a vision here, but I have no idea what it
> > is.
> > Can you elaborate on how you envision inventory working if EM is not
> > implementing the inventory dbus interfaces?
> >
> > thx - brad
> --
> Best regards,
> Andrei Kartashev
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-24 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-24 14:30 entity manager configurations and dbus interfaces Brad Bishop
2020-09-24 15:43 ` Andrei Kartashev
2020-09-24 15:54 ` Ed Tanous [this message]
2020-09-24 16:17 ` Andrei Kartashev
2020-09-24 15:50 ` Ed Tanous
2020-09-24 16:38 ` James Feist
2020-09-29 20:29 ` Andrei Kartashev
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