RE: [Ipmitool-devel] kcs hosed !

[Jon C. <jon...@ne...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipm...@li...
> [mailto:ipm...@li...]On Behalf=20
> Of Garrick
> Staples
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 8:03 PM
> To: Duncan Laurie
> Cc: ipm...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Ipmitool-devel] kcs hosed !
>=20
>=20
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 05:13:55PM -0700, Duncan Laurie alleged:
> > Garrick Staples wrote:
> >=20
> > >I guess I lied again.  I'm still getting random timeouts.
> > >
> > >=20
> > >
> >=20
> > Does it help if you bump the timeout even higher?
>=20
> I'll give that a try.
>=20
> =20
> > The Sun-supplied openipmi is pretty old nowadays, I think it has
> > v27 and current is v33.  Not sure what the plan is for updating
> > that..
>=20
> May I ask why there is a Sun-supplied openipmi?  Are these=20
> changes not getting
> pushed upstream?  Is upstream refusing changes from Sun?
>=20

There are several changes that we've made that have not been adopted by
the open source driver.  Namely things related to ACPI, KCS timeouts,
and SMBIOS lookup of port.  So you really can't just grab the latest
version of the driver without integrating these changes into it.