Thanks Al! No urgency for a release on my side - we'll need to backport to the 1.4.x release in our most recent LTS anyway.
-dann On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 11:26 AM Albert Chu <ch...@llnl.gov> wrote: > > Everything looks good and works on my one node. Will push to master > and backport to 1.6.X stable branch shortly. > > Is it urgent to do a release? > > Al > > On Wed, 2018-08-01 at 11:01 -0600, dann frazier wrote: > > I ran into an ARM server that describes its system interface only via > > the SPMI ACPI table and not via SMBIOS. freeipmi has SPMI support, > > but > > its implementation accesses ACPI tables using /dev/mem, which isn't > > safe to do on ARM. In fact, this code is #ifdef'd out for ARM > > platforms. > > > > This series teaches freeipmi how to parse ACPI tables out of sysfs, > > keeping the fallback /dev/mem implementation as a fallback. It also > > fixes a couple of apparent bugs in the SPMI parsing itself. > > > > Tested on a HiSilicon D06 ARM Server, and 4 x86 servers: > > HP ProLiant DL165 G7 > > HP ProLiant DL385 G7 > > QuantaGrid D52B > > Supermicro Super Server > > > > I've actually not been able to get the existing /dev/mem code to work > > on any platform I've tried myself, so I was unable to regression test > > it. > > > > v2: > > * Rebased on current master. > > * Update Changelog. > > * Support systems with multiple SPMI instances. > > > > dann frazier (5): > > Don't try to separate the header from the ACPI table data > > Split RSDT/XSDT parsing into new function > > Add support for parsing SPMI tables exposed via sysfs > > Allow sysfs SPMI parsing on ARM platforms > > Correct order of bytes in specification_revision field of ACPI SPMI > > table > > > > ChangeLog | 15 ++ > > libfreeipmi/locate/ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c | 259 ++++++++++++++++--- > > -- > > 2 files changed, 218 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-) > > > -- > Albert Chu > ch...@llnl.gov > Computer Scientist > High Performance Systems Division > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory > _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list Freeipmi-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
