bce(4) with IPMI

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Oct 18 17:55:53 UTC 2011


On Tuesday, October 11, 2011 3:52:25 pm Sean Bruno wrote:
> In addition, the IPMI driver attaches to "something" and I can poke at
> it via ipmitool.  So, from the driver perspective, the attempt to detect
> MFW enabled doesn't work as the chipset still thinks that its "on".

The ipmi driver attaching to the BMC is independent.  You can have the BMC
active even though it's network channel is unavailable, so I wouldn't count
on that datapoint being meaningful.

-- 
John Baldwin


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