Matt Jerdonek wrote:
Hello,
The KCS driver appears to not use the SMS_ATN register. This register
is useful for BMC-to-BMC communication to know when the remote BMC has
responded. Are there any plans to monitor this register in future
releases? If not, are the maintainers open to
Hi Matt,
Definitely open to patches. Looking over the IPMI spec, I agree w/
A.B., it seems to be more useful for a higher level monitoring, w/ the
Get Message Flags and similar commands. I can think of several patch
ideas:
1) add a KCS driver flag for checking for SMS_ATN in addition to OBF
Al Anand,
Thanks for the quick response. I'm planning on using libfreeipmi to create a
custom application that, among other things, will have to read event flags from
the local event log and query sensors on local and remote BMCs.
I looked at the spec, and I think I have a slightly different
Hi Matt,
Anand wrote the KCS driver, so he'll respond too.
Re-reading the spec again and reading your comments, I think I
understand your situation. You're looking to read the SMS_ATN register
so that you'll know whether a receive queue, event buffer, or whatever
other thing has occurred, then
