From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 30 16:55:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59AB216A4DE for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:55:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from daved@tamu.edu) Received: from sr-6-int.cis.tamu.edu (smtp-relay.tamu.edu [165.91.22.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E18C843D45 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:55:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from daved@tamu.edu) Received: from localhost (localhost.tamu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by sr-6-int.cis.tamu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AD83555; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:55:51 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [128.194.169.56] (dhcp-qip-128-194-169-56.net.tamu.edu [128.194.169.56]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sr-6-int.cis.tamu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9716489; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:55:50 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: References: <44C63DFD.5040401@rogers.com> <20060726160952.GW17014@poupinou.org> <016E6A0B-E3E4-4444-BD27-24E75C784788@tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; boundary=Apple-Mail-1--122309378; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" Message-Id: <8DA8212A-AB69-4E56-8F3A-A7CF294F2872@tamu.edu> From: David Duchscher Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:55:49 -0500 To: Nikolas Britton X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at tamu.edu X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Monitoring temperature with acpi (sysctls) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:55:52 -0000 --Apple-Mail-1--122309378 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Jul 28, 2006, at 8:38 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 7/26/06, David Duchscher wrote: >> >> Yes, the Supermicro PDSMi supports the IPMI 2.0 module and I can >> confirm that it works with the IPMI ported driver from current on >> 6.1. The module is optional so you will have to purchase one for >> the system, around 0. You will also need the latest BIOS loaded on >> the motherboard for it to work. >> >> http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-IPMI20-E.cfm >> > > What about their other IPMI 2.0 cards: > http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/SIM.cfm > > Specifically the AOC-SIMLP? and what ported IPMI driver are we talking > about? Also does anyone have an IPMI primer, I've never used it > before? I haven't used the cards listed there so I can really comment on how well they work or if they work. I would assume the cards with their own ethernet jack will work no matter what OS is on the system. The problems that have cropped up with the integrated or add-in modules is that the OS network driver can cut off access to the IPMI module. For example, the IPMI module with the bge driver use to do that, not sure if that has been fixed. I have also noticed today that communication to the IPMI module is lost when the em driver initializes the network device and doesn't come back until the interface is brought up by the OS. If you have no networking configured, no network access to the IPMI module. :) As for the IPMI driver, it is not necessary for the OS to have an IPMI driver unless you wish to communicate with the card outside of using the network. The IPMI driver I am using is in ports/ipmi-kmod and is a port of the driver in current. I have no idea if it supports those cards. -- DaveD --Apple-Mail-1--122309378--