On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This patchset introduces IPMI Block Transfer over I2C (BT-I2C), which has the > same semantics as IPMI Block Transfer except it done over I2C. > > The documentation discusses the reason for this in greater detail, suffice it to > say SSIF cannot be correctly implemented on some naive I2C devices. There are > some additional reasons why we don't like SSIF, but those are again covered in > the documentation for all those who are interested. > > In addition, since I am adding both host side and BMC side support, I figured > that now is a good time to resolve the problem of where to put BMC side IPMI > drivers; right now we have it (there is only one) in drivers/char/ipmi/ with the > rest of the host side IPMI drivers, but I think it makes sense to put all of the > host side IPMI drivers in one directory and all of the BMC side drivers in > another, preferably in a way that does not effect all of the current OpenIPMI > users. I have not created a MAINTAINERS entry for the new directory yet, as I > figured there might be some discussion to be had about it. > > I have tested this patchset on the Aspeed 2500 EVB. I forgot to mention, for the OpenBMC people, this is based on an RFC: https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2016-September/004505.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
