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Re: [Freeipmi-devel] Sensor thresholds and sensor capabilities bits
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Albert Chu |
Subject: |
Re: [Freeipmi-devel] Sensor thresholds and sensor capabilities bits |
Date: |
Wed, 03 Jul 2013 13:20:45 -0700 |
On Wed, 2013-07-03 at 08:44 +0200, Liebig, Holger wrote:
> Hi Albert,
> >
> > Hey Holger,
> >
> > I've been re-reading this section and now I'm confused by it. I have to
> > admit, I'm not entirely sure how I came to my original interpretation, but
> > your guess that I read "unreadable" and stopped is as good a guess as any.
> >
> > > Maybe the value was first set in the SDR's when support for the
> > > optional Get Sensor Thresholds cmd was not yet available in the
> > > firmware, or by mistake.
> >
> > After thinking about it, I think this interpretation may be correct. It
> > seems to be verified by atleast 1 motherboard I have on site that has the
> > same situation you describe. It has 11b set for the threshold access
> > support.
> >
> [...]
> >
> > However, when calling "Get Sensor Thresholds" against this sensor I get a
> > completion code of CDh = "Command illegal for specified sensor or record
> > type."
> >
> > I think the compliant thing to do would be to get thresholds from the SDR
> > instead of via Get Sensor Thresholds of the threshold_access ==
> > fixed/unreadable.
> [Liebig, Holger]
> This sounds reasonable.
>
> >
> > Would this work for you Holger? Or would we still need to the vendor
> > specific exception? Attached is a patch I made to test this out and it
> > works on the motherboard I have.
> [Liebig, Holger]
>
> The patch works also fine with our systems. It would be great if this would
> be included in future versions of FreeIPMI.
Applied, it'll be in future versions.
> Thanks,
> Holger
>
> P.S. Regarding non linear sensors: this can be solved in most cases by
> "Get Sensor Reading Factors" cmd and the actual reading or threshold
> value. 10 years ago we had one 1U system which used this for fan
> sensors.
I've never included it b/c I've never had a motherboard that had
non-linear sensors. Is it something you'd be able to test if I try and
add it?
Al
>
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Albert Chu
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Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory