From: "David Härdeman" <david@2gen.com>
To: Bukie Mabayoje <bukiemab@gte.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPMI smbus and Intel 6300ESB Watchdog drivers
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:52:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050131205234.GC26992@hardeman.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41FD5EFB.D6E39F5E@gte.net>
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 02:26:03PM -0800, Bukie Mabayoje wrote:
>David Härdeman wrote:
>> 1) On the mainboard is a 6300ESB Watchdog Timer (pci id 8086:25ab), but
>> there seems to be no driver available for it.
>
>6300ESB is not a Watchdog Timer. It is an I/O Controller hub that includes a watch dog timer.
Ah well, I just quoted the output of lspci...
>> Does anyone know if there
>> is any such driver in progress or if I've misunderstood the situation?
>
>If you tell me why you are interested in the WDT, then maybe I will be able answer your question.
Hummm? In order to have watchdog functionality on the machine? But
nevermind, I already got that question answered (with the pci id update
for i8xx_tco).
>>
>>
>> 2) IPMI, Documentation/IPMI.txt mentions a ipmi_smb driver, but I could
>> find no such driver in the 2.6.10 tree. Am I missing something?
>
>Do you get the ISM package that shipped with the board? The ISM software stack in not part of the kernel. The IPMI stuff is part of Server Management.
>
As for IPMI, I have no idea, I just have no experience of it at all and
I saw that this mmotherboard supported IPMI so I thought it could be an
interesting experiment to learn a bit more about IPMI.
Re,
David
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-31 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-30 18:44 IPMI smbus and Intel 6300ESB Watchdog drivers David Härdeman
2005-01-30 21:13 ` Peter Lundkvist
2005-01-31 20:46 ` David Härdeman
2005-01-30 22:26 ` Bukie Mabayoje
2005-01-31 20:52 ` David Härdeman [this message]
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