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

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Mon Jul 9 17:22:28 CEST 2012


On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> 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




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