Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261360AbVAaU4U (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:56:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261362AbVAaUyX (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:54:23 -0500 Received: from 1-1-12-13a.han.sth.bostream.se ([82.182.30.168]:50312 "EHLO palpatine.hardeman.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261361AbVAaUwm (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:52:42 -0500 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:52:35 +0100 From: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4rdeman?= To: Bukie Mabayoje Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: IPMI smbus and Intel 6300ESB Watchdog drivers Message-ID: <20050131205234.GC26992@hardeman.nu> References: <20050130184401.GC3373@hardeman.nu> <41FD5EFB.D6E39F5E@gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <41FD5EFB.D6E39F5E@gte.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1479 Lines: 37 On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 02:26:03PM -0800, Bukie Mabayoje wrote: >David H?rdeman 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/