@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ manual), choose the 'IPMI SI handler' option. A driver also exists
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for direct I2C access to the IPMI management controller. Some boards
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support this, but it is unknown if it will work on every board. For
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this, choose 'IPMI SMBus handler', but be ready to try to do some
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- figuring to see if it will work on your system if the SMBIOS/APCI
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+ figuring to see if it will work on your system if the SMBIOS/ACPI
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information is wrong or not present. It is fairly safe to have both
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these enabled and let the drivers auto-detect what is present.
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@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ situation, you need to read the section below named 'The SI Driver' or
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IPMI defines a standard watchdog timer. You can enable this with the
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'IPMI Watchdog Timer' config option. If you compile the driver into
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the kernel, then via a kernel command-line option you can have the
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- watchdog timer start as soon as it initializes. It also have a lot
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+ watchdog timer start as soon as it initializes. It also has a lot
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of other options, see the 'Watchdog' section below for more details.
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Note that you can also have the watchdog continue to run if it is
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closed (by default it is disabled on close). Go into the 'Watchdog
@@ -314,13 +314,13 @@ This gives the receiver a place to actually put the message.
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If the message cannot fit into the data you provide, you will get an
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EMSGSIZE error and the driver will leave the data in the receive
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- queue. If you want to get it and have it truncate the message, us
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+ queue. If you want to get it and have it truncate the message, use
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the IPMICTL_RECEIVE_MSG_TRUNC ioctl.
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When you send a command (which is defined by the lowest-order bit of
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the netfn per the IPMI spec) on the IPMB bus, the driver will
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automatically assign the sequence number to the command and save the
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- command. If the response is not receive in the IPMI-specified 5
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+ command. If the response is not received in the IPMI-specified 5
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seconds, it will generate a response automatically saying the command
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timed out. If an unsolicited response comes in (if it was after 5
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seconds, for instance), that response will be ignored.
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To respond to a received command, set the response bit in the returned
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netfn, use the address from the received message, and use the same
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- msgid that you got in the receive message.
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+ msgid that you got in the received message.
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From userland, equivalent IOCTLs are provided to do these functions.
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@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ register would be 0xca6. This defaults to 1.
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The regsizes parameter gives the size of a register, in bytes. The
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data used by IPMI is 8-bits wide, but it may be inside a larger
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- register. This parameter allows the read and write type to specified.
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+ register. This parameter allows the read and write type to be specified.
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It may be 1, 2, 4, or 8. The default is 1.
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Since the register size may be larger than 32 bits, the IPMI data may not
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SMIC interface, the IPMI driver will start a kernel thread for the
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interface to help speed things up. This is a low-priority kernel
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thread that constantly polls the IPMI driver while an IPMI operation
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- is in progress. The force_kipmid module parameter will all the user to
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- force this thread on or off. If you force it off and don't have
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+ is in progress. The force_kipmid module parameter will allow the user
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+ to force this thread on or off. If you force it off and don't have
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interrupts, the driver will run VERY slowly. Don't blame me,
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these interfaces suck.
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@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ kernel command line as::
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These are the same options as on the module command line.
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The I2C driver does not support non-blocking access or polling, so
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- this driver cannod to IPMI panic events, extend the watchdog at panic
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+ this driver cannot do IPMI panic events, extend the watchdog at panic
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time, or other panic-related IPMI functions without special kernel
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patches and driver modifications. You can get those at the openipmi
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web page.
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ Parameters are::
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ipmi_ipmb.retry_time_ms=<Time between retries on IPMB>
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ipmi_ipmb.max_retries=<Number of times to retry a message>
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- Loading the module will not result in the driver automatcially
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+ Loading the module will not result in the driver automatically
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starting unless there is device tree information setting it up. If
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you want to instantiate one of these by hand, do::
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