Re: [coreboot] New patch to review for coreboot: 36c6cc6 SMBIOS: Add Type 38 (IPMI) data structure

[Peter Stuge]

ron minnich wrote:
> was there some platform on which IPMI was essential to bringup?
> It's really not that great to have otherwise.

I don't think coreboot can get around stroking the BMC the right way,
much like with ACPI tables. It's part of the platform, so it needs to
be dealt with.

And besides, it's nice to have the coreboot log fall out of ipmitool.

//Peter

New patch to review for coreboot: 36c6cc6 SMBIOS: Add Type 38 (IPMI) data structure

[ron minnich]

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Peter Stuge  wrote:
> ron minnich wrote:
> > was there some platform on which IPMI was essential to bringup?
> > It's really not that great to have otherwise.
>
> I don't think coreboot can get around stroking the BMC the right way,
> much like with ACPI tables. It's part of the platform, so it needs to
> be dealt with.
>
> And besides, it's nice to have the coreboot log fall out of ipmitool.

OK, just checking. I was afraid of that :-)

ron