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* Target architecture of amd-sbi driver
@ 2025-09-15  9:28 Jean Delvare
  2025-09-15 10:34 ` Gupta, Akshay
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jean Delvare @ 2025-09-15  9:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Akshay Gupta
  Cc: Arnd Bergmann, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Naveen Krishna Chatradhi, LKML

Hi Akshay,

The amd-sbi Linux driver (sbrmi-i2c kernel module) can currently be
selected on all architectures. Is this driver intended to be used on
the host, or on the BMC, or both?

If it's an host-side driver, it should not be proposed on non-x86
architectures by default and we should add a hardware dependency to it
(or'd with COMPILE_TEST to preserve build testing coverage). What do
you think?

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support

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* Re: Target architecture of amd-sbi driver
  2025-09-15  9:28 Target architecture of amd-sbi driver Jean Delvare
@ 2025-09-15 10:34 ` Gupta, Akshay
  2025-09-15 12:22   ` Jean Delvare
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Gupta, Akshay @ 2025-09-15 10:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jean Delvare
  Cc: Arnd Bergmann, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Naveen Krishna Chatradhi, LKML


On 9/15/2025 2:58 PM, Jean Delvare wrote:
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>
> Hi Akshay,
>
> The amd-sbi Linux driver (sbrmi-i2c kernel module) can currently be
> selected on all architectures. Is this driver intended to be used on
> the host, or on the BMC, or both?
>
> If it's an host-side driver, it should not be proposed on non-x86
> architectures by default and we should add a hardware dependency to it
> (or'd with COMPILE_TEST to preserve build testing coverage). What do
> you think?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Jean Delvare
> SUSE L3 Support

Hi Jean,

Its not a host-side driver and is intended for BMC. Today we are using 
over ARM and ARM64 BMC.


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* Re: Target architecture of amd-sbi driver
  2025-09-15 10:34 ` Gupta, Akshay
@ 2025-09-15 12:22   ` Jean Delvare
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jean Delvare @ 2025-09-15 12:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Gupta, Akshay
  Cc: Arnd Bergmann, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Naveen Krishna Chatradhi, LKML

On Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:04:37 +0530, Gupta, Akshay wrote:
> On 9/15/2025 2:58 PM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > The amd-sbi Linux driver (sbrmi-i2c kernel module) can currently be
> > selected on all architectures. Is this driver intended to be used on
> > the host, or on the BMC, or both?
> >
> > If it's an host-side driver, it should not be proposed on non-x86
> > architectures by default and we should add a hardware dependency to it
> > (or'd with COMPILE_TEST to preserve build testing coverage). What do
> > you think?
> 
> Its not a host-side driver and is intended for BMC. Today we are using 
> over ARM and ARM64 BMC.

OK, thanks for clarifying. I think this information could be added to
Kconfig to benefit to all users and help them decide if they want to
build the driver or not. I'll send a patch.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support

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