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Re: [Freeipmi-devel] tweaked Sun workaround text
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Al Chu |
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Re: [Freeipmi-devel] tweaked Sun workaround text |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:06:08 -0700 |
Hey Dave,
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 15:06 +0100, Dave Love wrote:
> Al Chu <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hey Dave,
> >
> > Thanks for some of the clarifications. I'd like to keep the ordering
> > the same b/c it's actually split up IPMI 1.5 vs. IPMI 2.0.
>
> Ah, that wasn't immediately obvious.
>
> > And some of the text was from folks at Sun. So I've done the below
> > patch instead. Look good?
>
> I think it's misleading to list `Sun Fire X2200/X4150/X4450' other than
> as examples. As far as I can tell, this is a generic ELOM thing, and
> the should say `ELOM'.
Ahhhh. Ok ... then in that case I should put:
"Sun Fire 2200/4150/4450 with ELOM"
I didn't understand that it was an ELOM thing.
> Also, the `reported to be fixed in a later
> release' is from at least a year ago, according to CVS, and it hasn't
> happened yet as far as I can tell;
Fair point. It's a phrase that I've added to many workarounds as long
as the vendor says that they are working on it. I think I'll remove it.
> I think it's at least worth saying
> it's not fixed as of 2.0.2.5.
I generally dislike documenting version numbers in b/c they can be out
of date very quickly. Also, how are you getting the firmware version
number? B/c the IPMI way to get version numbers doesn't have that much
detail.
# > /usr/sbin/bmc-info | grep sion
Device Revision: 1
Firmware Revision: 2.00
IPMI Version: 2.0
Aux Firmware Revision Info: 302h
> I could see if my hardware-oriented HPC Sun contact knows any more if
> that would be helpful.
Ok, hopefully we can get more clarifications.
Al
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Albert Chu
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