Subject: Re: ipmi support
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/20/2006 21:52:53
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:50:01PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> What is the state of ipmi support on NetBSD?  I see impitool in
> pkgsrc.  It can operate over the network or locally, via the OpenIPMI
> driver.  As best I can tell, NetBSD doesn't have that driver.  (If
> nothing else, /sys/dev/ipmi on FreeBSD has about 3800 lines of code; we
> have about half that.)  Local support is necessary for things like
> setting the initial IP address, I would assume.

The primary goal of the ipmi driver I imported was to get access to
the watchdog and sensors. I doesn't do much more than that.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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