tree 70a54c64c7bfbef1f8e82096c0d172212cfa39a2
parent 7273007d5bf677d9a17624d208095929082adc31
author Deepak Kodihalli <dkodihal@in.ibm.com> 1548229086 -0600
committer Gunnar Mills <gmills@us.ibm.com> 1549399684 +0000

Add design for a PLDM stack

Propose a design for implementing DMTF's Platform Level Data Model
(PLDM) specifications. The idea is to employ PLDM for various "inside
the box" communication scenarios, such as Host<->BMC, BMC<->Sensor
device, BMC<->IO device, BMC<->BMC, etc.

The design was first proposed on the OpenBMC mailing list:
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2018-December/014356.html.
Feedback received has been incorporated into this commit, and the plan
is to continue further reviews on Gerrit.

This commit describes, apart from the background and requirements,
the design for elements such as the  PLDM requester, PLDM responder,
protocol handling, and platform specific actions.

Change-Id: I8eb17e206a510f852d6035c5a15184646eeb540b
Signed-off-by: Deepak Kodihalli <dkodihal@in.ibm.com>