Re: [Freeipmi-devel] [PATCH] Using DMI firmware in sysfs if exists

2017-06-29 Thread Albert Chu
It seems important, so I'll put a release on my todo queue. Al On Wed, 2017-06-28 at 11:16 +0800, Ike Panhc wrote: > Hi Albert, > > Thanks for feedback. > > You are the one to make the call. and I believe it > is good to have a new release so every distro can > have this fix especially they hav

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] [PATCH] Using DMI firmware in sysfs if exists

2017-06-27 Thread Ike Panhc
Hi Albert, Thanks for feedback. You are the one to make the call. and I believe it is good to have a new release so every distro can have this fix especially they have arm64 release. -- Ike Panhc On 06/28/2017 07:42 AM, Albert Chu wrote: > LGTM, thanks! This seems important/serious enough tha

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] [PATCH] Using DMI firmware in sysfs if exists

2017-06-27 Thread Albert Chu
LGTM, thanks! This seems important/serious enough that it would affect current users. Do you think a new release is warranted? Al On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 16:07 +0800, Ike Panhc wrote: > On arm64 system scanning /dev/mem for SMBIOS tables might fail and > stopped with SIGBUS. Kernel version > 4.2

[Freeipmi-devel] [PATCH] Using DMI firmware in sysfs if exists

2017-06-27 Thread Ike Panhc
On arm64 system scanning /dev/mem for SMBIOS tables might fail and stopped with SIGBUS. Kernel version > 4.2 provides DMI tables in /sys/firmware/dmi/tables and it is much safer for ipmi-locate to read. If it exists, reading from it instead of /dev/mem fix ipmi-locate crash on several arm64 system.