Re: [Freeipmi-devel] OEM-specific decoding of SEL entries

2007-06-26 Thread Anand Babu Periasamy
Levi Pearson writes: Is there currently any plan to provide OEM-specific decoding of SEL event data fields? On the Dell boards we're using, for example, the DIMM slot number is recorded in some of the bits of the Event Data field. It would be useful to us to be able to specify the OEM of the b

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] IPMI Serial Interface (Terminal Mode) PowerPC

2007-06-26 Thread Anand Babu Periasamy
IPMI Terminal-Mode is different interface from serial driver. PPP, Terminal mode and native mode are different ways to access the BMC through the serial port. You cannot access the serial interface through inband. With PPP, IPMI uses UDP protocol for communication. So the LAN driver should work

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] IPMI Serial Interface (Terminal Mode) PowerPC

2007-06-26 Thread Anand Babu Periasamy
I will provide some more info. I don't know why a kernel driver exists for IPMI Serial Terminal-Mode interface. Using a standard serial driver (say /dev/ttyS1) and serial programming library, just the serial mode settings (BAUD rate and stuff) and you can parse it like regular text. Intel mothe

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] update on freeipmi 0.4.0 release + ipmi 2.0 for all tools update

2007-06-26 Thread Al Chu
Howdy everyone, > The plan is to commit one more tool (ipmi-fru) into FreeIPMI before > releasing 0.4.0-beta. The tool has been complete for quite some time, > however I have not received GPL approval from my organization (it > normally doesn't take this long, not sure why it's hung up) to releas