[edk2-devel] [PATCH v3 1/8] ManageabilityPkg: Add Readme file
Leif Lindholm
quic_llindhol at quicinc.com
Tue Mar 21 11:56:12 UTC 2023
Minor nit:
On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 11:21:06 +0800, Chang, Abner via groups.io wrote:
> From: Abner Chang <abner.chang at amd.com>
>
> Add Readme file of edk2 platform ManageabilityPkg.
>
> Signed-off-by: Abner Chang <abner.chang at amd.com>
> Cc: Liming Gao <gaoliming at byosoft.com.cn>
> Cc: Isaac Oram <isaac.w.oram at intel.com>
> Cc: Nate DeSimone <nathaniel.l.desimone at intel.com>
> Cc: Nickle Wang <nicklew at nvidia.com>
> Cc: Igor Kulchytskyy <igork at ami.com>
> Cc: Abdul Lateef Attar <abdattar at amd.com>
> Reviewed-by: Abdul Lateef Attar <AbdulLateef.Attar at amd.com>
> Reviewed-by: Nickle Wang <nicklew at nvidia.com>
> ---
> Features/ManageabilityPkg/Readme.md | 177 +++++
> .../Media/ManageabilityDriverStack.svg | 752 ++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 929 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Features/ManageabilityPkg/Readme.md
> create mode 100644 Features/ManageabilityPkg/Documents/Media/ManageabilityDriverStack.svg
>
> diff --git a/Features/ManageabilityPkg/Readme.md b/Features/ManageabilityPkg/Readme.md
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..b56ffb8a86
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Features/ManageabilityPkg/Readme.md
> @@ -0,0 +1,177 @@
> +# EDK2 Manageability Package
> +
> +edk2 ManageabilityPkg is introduced to provide edk2 drivers and
> +libraries for industry platform management standards, such as PLDM (Platform
> +Level Data Model), MCTP (Management Component Transfer Protocol), IPMI
> +(Intelligent Platform Management Interface) and others. The framework of
> +ManageabilityPkg is designed to flexibly support the transport interfaces for above
> +industry standards, the transport interfaces such as KCS or I2C for IPMI, PCI VDM
> +(Vendor Defined Message), I2C or KCS for MCTP, or the OEM proprietary transports.
> +
> +Below figure shows the driver stacks which are abstracted to support disparate
> +transports for specifications of platform management.
> +
> +
> +## Manageability Transport edk2 Driver Stack
> +edk2 manageability transport library is designed to incorporated with disparate
> +manageability protocols. In order to flexibly facilitating the transport
> +functionalities, below functions must be provided by manageability transport
> +library to compliant with the framework of ManageabilityPkg design.
> +
> +* ### ***AcquireTransportSession()***
> + edk2 manageability protocol driver invokes this function to acquire the
> + transport session to transmit manageability packet. The implementation
> + could reset the transport interface, initial the transport interface
> + internal structure and the [Manageability Transport Function Structure](#manageability-transport-function-structure).
> + The [Transport Token](#transfer-token) is returned to the caller for further manageability packet
> + transmit and receive.
> +
> +
> +* ### ***GetTransportCapability()***
> + edk2 Manageability protocol driver invokes this function to get the capabilities
> + of transport interface. The implementation of manageability transport library
> + can optionally support advanced features such as multi-sessions on transport
> + interface or asynchronous transfer.
> +
> +* ### ***ReleaseTransportSession()***
> + edk2 manageability protocol driver invokes this function to release the transport
> + session.
> +
> + ### **Manageability Transport Function Structure**
> +
> + Below is the function structure initiated by the manageability transport library and
> + returned in the transport token when caller invokes [AcquireTransportSession](#acquiretransportsession)
> + function.
> +
> +
> + ***MANAGEABILITY_TRANSPORT_FUNCTION*** is declared as an union to accommodate
> + different versions of transport function set. This allows the function added to
> + support the new functionalities in the future and also keep the backward compatibility.
> + Developers can not modify the previous version of function structure, instead
> + developers can create a new function structure with the increased version number
> + that includes the previous version of function set and new added functions.
> +
> +```
> + typedef union {
> + MANAGEABILITY_TRANSPORT_FUNCTION_V1_0 *Version1_0;
> + } MANAGEABILITY_TRANSPORT_FUNCTION;
> +
> + struct _MANAGEABILITY_TRANSPORT_FUNCTION_V1_0 {
> + MANAGEABILITY_TRANSPORT_INIT TransportInit;
> + MANAGEABILITY_TRANSPORT_STATUS TransportStatus;
> + MANAGEABILITY_TRANSPORT_RESET TransportReset;
> + MANAGEABILITY_TRANSPORT_TRANSMIT_RECEIVE TransportTransmitReceive;
> + };
> +```
> +* ***TransportInit()***
> +
> + Manageability protocol driver invokes this function to initial the transport
> + interface with the optional hardware configuration of the transport interface.
> + Whether the transport interface requires initialization or not depends on the
> + transport interface characteristics. The hardware information is optional passed to
> + this function if the manageability protocol driver would like to use the different
> + hardware configuration of transport interface. For example, the different I/O
> + address of KCS interface, or the memory mapped I/O KCS interface. The structure
> + format of hardware information is created according to the hardware design of
> + transport interface.
> +
> +* ***TransportStatus()***
> +
> + Manageability protocol driver invokes this function to get the status of transport
> + interface. How does this function report the status depends on the transport
> + interface characteristics and the implementation of this function.
> +
> +* ***TransportReset()***
> +
> + Manageability protocol driver can invoke this function to reset and recover the
> + transport interface in case the error status is reported by the transport
> + interface. Whether the transport interface can be reset or not depends on the
> + transport interface characteristics and the implementation of this function.
> +
> +* ***TransportTransmitReceive()***
> + Manageability protocol driver invokes this function to transmit and/or receive the
> + packet. Caller has to setup the [Transfer Token](#transfer-token) when invoke to
> + this function.
> +
> + ### **Transfer Token**
> +
> +```
> + struct _MANAGEABILITY_TRANSFER_TOKEN {
> + EFI_EVENT ReceiveEvent;
> + MANAGEABILITY_TRANSPORT_HEADER TransmitHeader;
> + MANAGEABILITY_TRANSPORT_TRAILER TransmitTrailer;
> + MANAGEABILITY_TRANSMIT_PACKAGE TransmitPackage;
> + MANAGEABILITY_RECEIVE_PACKAGE ReceivePackage;
> + EFI_STATUS TransferStatus;
> + MANAGEABILITY_TRANSPORT_ADDITIONAL_STATUS TransportAdditionalStatus;
> +};
indentation of curly brace.
/
Leif
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