Re: IPMI smbus and Intel 6300ESB Watchdog drivers

From: David Härdeman (david_at_2gen.com)
Date: 01/31/05

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To: Bukie Mabayoje <bukiemab@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
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