Request to create one new repository for "serialbridge"

[gtossk2]

Hello,

I would like to request 1 new repository: serialbridge

Follow [IPMI architecture][ipmi-arch] to add a new channel bridge. This bridge is intended to provide the communication capability between BMC and Host/UEFI in emulator/virtualizer, such as Arm FVP.

This repository will implement:

• Encode/decode IPMI Serial interface transport data format (Sec.14, IPMI 2.0)
• Serial channel bridge to send/receive the IPMI commands

[ipmi-arch]: https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/master/architecture/ipmi-architecture.md

Naming

• serialbridge

Maintainers

• John Chung [john.chung@arm.com]

[williamspatrick]

Could we add this as a compile option to ssifbridge, kcsbridge, or ipmbbridge? I think we'd prefer to combine these repositories together anyhow.

[williamspatrick]

Maintainers - John Chung

This would also be your first contribution (I think) to the project at all. We don't give maintainership in that state because it isn't clear that you are up to date with the general practices of the project. See:

https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/46902afd6ebd20d1148379df99fe2c0c591f56ba/community-membership.md#subproject-owner

Do you have someone already working on the project that could mentor you in this role? Usually we would assign someone else as the initial maintainer and then they would promote you after some time of observation. If you don't have anyone in mind, we can nominate a TOF member.

[gtossk2]

Could we add this as a compile option to ssifbridge, kcsbridge, or ipmbbridge? I think we'd prefer to combine these repositories together anyhow.

To be clarify, did you expect that the mechanism is similar to [dbus-sensors][sensors]? Put all bridge code into one repositories, then platform machine can specific one of bridges as PACKAGECONFIG in the bb recipe.

[sensors]: https://github.com/openbmc/dbus-sensors

Maintainers - John Chung

This would also be your first contribution (I think) to the project at all. We don't give maintainership in that state because it isn't clear that you are up to date with the general practices of the project. See:

https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/46902afd6ebd20d1148379df99fe2c0c591f56ba/community-membership.md#subproject-owner

Do you have someone already working on the project that could mentor you in this role? Usually we would assign someone else as the initial maintainer and then they would promote you after some time of observation. If you don't have anyone in mind, we can nominate a TOF member.

I had few contributions in libmctp and libpldm. But I don't have name in my mind, so please kindly nominate a TOF member.