Control / Operator panel support in systems

Control / Operator panel support in systems

[Jinu Thomas]

Hi All,

  I was starting to explore on the design for the operator panel seen on 
IBM systems, it is also called a control panel , which basically is a 
card unit which has an LCD and some buttons to navigate the display on 
the LCD. I wanted to check if there is any design or code out there, for 
such  kind of usage. The design/code can be checked to see if it can be 
made generic for use, even though the hardware is only used by IBM.


Thanks a lot

Jinu Joy

Re: Control / Operator panel support in systems

[Jinu Thomas]

Hi All,

  I have been working on the design and this is what i have zeroed at.

 The design aims to accommodate a panel that provides buttons used for navigation and selection of functionality and a display used for visual interaction to the user.

 The design is divided into two parts.

  - First part is to have a navigational user select-able section. This would mean the navigation coming from the hardware in terms of buttons. these will be used to perform the required functionality selected by the user.

  - Second part is to have a display section. The display side will be common for all BMC apps, it will be done via Dbus API hosted by this app. 

@brad
 Need a Repository created.
  
   I don't think there is any hardware like this out there, so do not see or expect any overlap with the rest of the community, i will be thinking of using ibm_misc or ibm_oem as the repository. 

Thoughts and suggestions are welcome.

Regards,
Jinu Joy


On 27/08/19 11:06 pm, Jinu Thomas wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>  I was starting to explore on the design for the operator panel seen on IBM systems, it is also called a control panel , which basically is a card unit which has an LCD and some buttons to navigate the display on the LCD. I wanted to check if there is any design or code out there, for such  kind of usage. The design/code can be checked to see if it can be made generic for use, even though the hardware is only used by IBM.
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> Jinu Joy
> 

Re: Control / Operator panel support in systems

[Jinu Thomas]

Hi Brad,

  Can we get the repo created for the below?

Regards,
Jinu Joy

On 12/01/21 8:17 pm, Jinu Thomas wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>   I have been working on the design and this is what i have zeroed at.
> 
>  The design aims to accommodate a panel that provides buttons used for navigation and selection of functionality and a display used for visual interaction to the user.
> 
>  The design is divided into two parts.
> 
>   - First part is to have a navigational user select-able section. This would mean the navigation coming from the hardware in terms of buttons. these will be used to perform the required functionality selected by the user.
> 
>   - Second part is to have a display section. The display side will be common for all BMC apps, it will be done via Dbus API hosted by this app. 
> 
> @brad
>  Need a Repository created.
>   
>    I don't think there is any hardware like this out there, so do not see or expect any overlap with the rest of the community, i will be thinking of using ibm_misc or ibm_oem as the repository. 
> 
> Thoughts and suggestions are welcome.
> 
> Regards,
> Jinu Joy
> 
> 
> On 27/08/19 11:06 pm, Jinu Thomas wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>>  I was starting to explore on the design for the operator panel seen on IBM systems, it is also called a control panel , which basically is a card unit which has an LCD and some buttons to navigate the display on the LCD. I wanted to check if there is any design or code out there, for such  kind of usage. The design/code can be checked to see if it can be made generic for use, even though the hardware is only used by IBM.
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>>
>> Jinu Joy
>>

Re: Control / Operator panel support in systems

[Patrick Williams]

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On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 06:58:25PM +0530, Jinu Thomas wrote:

Jinu, it seems like we still have a lot of discussion to work through on
the design[1].  Can we get that resolved before we determine what are
the appropriate repositories for this?

https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/docs/+/38904

> 
> Hi Brad,
> 
>   Can we get the repo created for the below?
> 
> Regards,
> Jinu Joy
> 
> On 12/01/21 8:17 pm, Jinu Thomas wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> >   I have been working on the design and this is what i have zeroed at.
> > 
> >  The design aims to accommodate a panel that provides buttons used for navigation and selection of functionality and a display used for visual interaction to the user.
> > 
> >  The design is divided into two parts.
> > 
> >   - First part is to have a navigational user select-able section. This would mean the navigation coming from the hardware in terms of buttons. these will be used to perform the required functionality selected by the user.
> > 
> >   - Second part is to have a display section. The display side will be common for all BMC apps, it will be done via Dbus API hosted by this app. 
> > 
> > @brad
> >  Need a Repository created.
> >   
> >    I don't think there is any hardware like this out there, so do not see or expect any overlap with the rest of the community, i will be thinking of using ibm_misc or ibm_oem as the repository. 
> > 
> > Thoughts and suggestions are welcome.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Jinu Joy
> > 
> > 
> > On 27/08/19 11:06 pm, Jinu Thomas wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >>  I was starting to explore on the design for the operator panel seen on IBM systems, it is also called a control panel , which basically is a card unit which has an LCD and some buttons to navigate the display on the LCD. I wanted to check if there is any design or code out there, for such  kind of usage. The design/code can be checked to see if it can be made generic for use, even though the hardware is only used by IBM.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot
> >>
> >> Jinu Joy
> >>

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Re: Control / Operator panel support in systems

[Brad Bishop]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 06:41:19AM -0600, Patrick Williams wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 06:58:25PM +0530, Jinu Thomas wrote:
>
>Jinu, it seems like we still have a lot of discussion to work through on
>the design[1].  Can we get that resolved before we determine what are
>the appropriate repositories for this?
>
>https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/docs/+/38904

Patrick

It seemed like your major concern was using the out-of-tree 
minion-mqueue driver or any other userspace i2c mechanism and I also 
share that concern.

If you replace those references with an input subsystem driver, did you 
have any other concerns? - thinking maybe we can work things out in
parallel a bit.

One last thought - do you have a use case for this?  I've heard about an 
OCP card providing similar function - wouldn't that use our existing 
IPMI over IPMB design with backend handlers - possibly OEM?  Trying to 
fit that into what Jinu is working on seems like a stretch to me.  
thoughts?

thx - brad