On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:52:53 +0100
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 
Thanks.  I'd planned to bring up FreeBSD on the box as a Xen/VT guest
machine; I guess I'll bring it up first in native mode...


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb