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From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
To: "Boehme, Markus" <markubo@amazon.de>
Cc: "Park, Seongjae" <sjpark@amazon.com>,
	"arnd@arndb.de" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Nuernberger, Stefan" <snu@amazon.de>,
	"openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net" 
	<openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	"Shah, Amit" <aams@amazon.de>
Subject: Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH 3/3] ipmi: Add timeout waiting for channel information
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 13:42:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201007184228.GH3038@minyard.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1599736120.29234.12.camel@amazon.de>

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 11:08:40AM +0000, Boehme, Markus via Openipmi-developer wrote:
> > > -                         && ipmi_version_minor(id) >= 5)) {
> > > -             unsigned int set;
> > > +     if (ipmi_version_major(id) == 1 && ipmi_version_minor(id) < 5) {
> > This is incorrect, it will not correctly handle IPMI 0.x BMCs.  Yes,
> > they exist.
> 
> Interesting! I wasn't aware of those. Searching the web doesn't turn up
> much and the spec doesn't mention them either. Are these pre-release
> implementations of the IPMI 1.0 spec or some kind of "IPMI light"?

There was an 0.9 version of the spec that some machines implemented.
It's not really a "light" version, it's just a really early version.  I
don't know how many machine out there still implement it, but I try to
keep them working if I can.

Thanks,

-corey

> 
> Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-07 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-07 16:25 [PATCH 1/3] ipmi: Reset response handler when failing to send the command Markus Boehme
2020-09-07 16:25 ` [PATCH 2/3] ipmi: Add timeout waiting for device GUID Markus Boehme
2020-09-08  0:07   ` Corey Minyard
2020-09-07 16:25 ` [PATCH 3/3] ipmi: Add timeout waiting for channel information Markus Boehme
2020-09-08  0:34   ` Corey Minyard
2020-09-10 11:08     ` Boehme, Markus
2020-10-07 18:42       ` Corey Minyard [this message]
2020-09-08  0:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] ipmi: Reset response handler when failing to send the command Corey Minyard

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