linux-kernel - Re: Target architecture of amd-sbi driver

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Message-ID: <5c9f7100-0e59-4237-a252-43c3ee4802a2@amd.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:04:37 +0530
From: "Gupta, Akshay" <Akshay.Gupta@....com>
To: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <naveenkrishna.chatradhi@....com>,
 LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Target architecture of amd-sbi driver


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.