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List: netbsd-port-i386
Subject: Re: ipmi support
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs ! columbia ! edu>
Date: 2006-12-20 20:56:13
Message-ID: 20061220205613.E0ED9766070 () berkshire ! machshav ! com
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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
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