Re: Target architecture of amd-sbi driver

Gupta, Akshay
2025-09-15T10:34:49Z

On 9/15/2025 2:58 PM, Jean Delvare wrote:
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> Hi Akshay,
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> 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?
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> 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?
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> Thanks,
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> 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.