Re: [Freeipmi-devel] fish feature idea

[Albert Chu]

> Yes thats a good idea. After I implement, unified driver model, I will
> add this raw command tool. Its like "ipmicmd" right?

Basically yes, but the important thing is we can write fish scripts
around it so the raw junk is hidden from users.

Al

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Albert Chu
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----- Original Message -----
From: Anand Babu <address@hidden>
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:45 am
Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-devel] fish feature idea

> ,----[ Albert Chu <address@hidden> ]
> | A user recently asked me if there was any way to reset the chassis
> | intrusion status on a Supermicro motherboard.  There is a 
> proprietary| IPMI command on the Supermicros that allows this, 
> since there is nothing
> | in the IPMI specification that allows this.
> | 
> | I thought a bit about how this might be implemented.  So the 
> following| came to me.
> | 
> | 1) We add a command into fish called 'raw' or something similar.  
> This| command allows us to right raw hex data to the BMC.  For 
> example:| 
> | fish> raw 08 00 01 BA 18
> | 
> | 2) Based on the 'raw' command, we can write fish-scripts to do 
> various| proprietary commands that users may want to use.  We could 
> just stick em
> | on the FreeIPMI webpage or something.
> | 
> | Thoughts?  Needless to say this is low priority.  I stuck it in 
> the TODO
> | for later consideration.  Perhaps I'll try to implement it in my 
> spare time.
> `----
> 
> Yes thats a good idea. After I implement, unified driver model, I will
> add this raw command tool. Its like "ipmicmd" right?
> 
> 
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> Anand Babu
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