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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1 0/3] ipmi: bt-i2c: added IPMI Block Transfer over I2C
On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Brendan Higgins
<brendanhiggins@google.com> 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

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