On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 3:56 AM, Anton D. Kachalov <mouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to mention one of the our related work for IPMI and I2C. > > We use OpenIPMI stack to connect to the computing nodes through the I2C > using IPMB (BT is not supported by nodes): > > https://github.com/ya-mouse/meta-openbmc-yandex/blob/master/meta-yandex/meta-openrack/meta-shaosi/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-obmc/ipmi_i2c.c > > It lacks complete slave support (slave part is only for receiving known > packets with query results due to OpenIPMI implementation in kernel) and use > one local slave to communicate with a number of target systems on the same > bus (currently supported only 1-to-1 schema). > > With this stuff we able to use ipmitool across different /dev/ipmiX devices > to communicate with nodes. Cool, I met someone else who had a similar use case which is part of why I decided to share this (not sure if should say who). So it sounds like we are probably not going to go with the approach I proposed; if you indeed find this useful, I would suggest that we put this in our OpenBMC repository and switch it out with the suggested method at some point. Let me know what you think -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
