RE: IPMI Help to access Firmware Versions.

RE: IPMI Help to access Firmware Versions.

[Kamesh Reddy]

Hi All,

I am new to this list and do not know if this is the correct list to send my
query. Please redirect me to the correct one if I am in the wrong list. I
want to access the various firmware versions of devices like MP, BMC of the
machine running Linux (64 Bit) etc. I have understood that this can be done
using IPMI. I want to know if IPMI is implemented on Linux 64. If so how do
I use it (IPMI) to get the information I need.

Any help / hints/ links/ pointers will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Kamesh.

Re: IPMI Help to access Firmware Versions.

[Grant Grundler]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:51:14PM +0530, Kamesh Reddy wrote:
> I want to access the various firmware versions of devices like MP, BMC of the
> machine running Linux (64 Bit) etc.

EFI shell doesn't provide this?
Or you want to read this info programmatically while the OS is running?
perhaps under /proc/ someplace?
I looked around a bit but didn't see aything obvious.


> I have understood that this can be done
> using IPMI. I want to know if IPMI is implemented on Linux 64.

yes
 
> If so how do
> I use it (IPMI) to get the information I need.

I'd like to know as well.

thanks
grant

Re: IPMI Help to access Firmware Versions.

[Erich Focht]

On Thursday 07 August 2003 21:42, Grant Grundler wrote:
> > If so how do
> > I use it (IPMI) to get the information I need.
>
> I'd like to know as well.

In principle this should work with newer versions of lm_sensors. I've
seen it running on IA32 but didn't try it myself. But in priciple this
should also work for IA64. Try Google for
    bmcsensors i2c-ipmi lm_sensors2 ...

Regards,
Erich