Re: Target architecture of amd-sbi driver

Jean Delvare
2025-09-15T12:22:16Z

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.

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Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support