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Subject: Re: Users of SBE FIFO kernel driver
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On Thu, 2017-02-02 at 13:59 +1030, Joel Stanley wrote:
> The driver you design will need to take into account that there will
> be multiple users from each of these APIs. For instance, there will be
> Eddie's OCC hwmon driver and the userspace code that kicks off the
> boot sequence.

In addition, we expect host debugging tools running on the BMC using
that interface.

Cheers,
Ben.