Re: [Freeipmi-users] Re: Freeipmi Tyan S2882

[Julian Elischer]

Anand Babu wrote:

> ,----[ "Bala.A" <address@hidden> ]
> | > If I could go ahead and get the approval pushed through for you to
> | > use the 1.5 SOL spec from Tyan would you still be willing to
> | > implement it?  I think there are a large number of us who bought
> | > the adapters only to be let down with the implementation by Tyan.
> | >
> | 
> | I will discuss with our team and let you know about SOL 1.5.  BTW,
> | Tyan has proprietary tool called TSO (Tyan System Operator), which
> | supports SOL.
> | 
> | Thanks,
> | 
> | Best Regards
> | Bala
> `----
> Tyan's M3291 SMDC should support IPMI-2.0. Tyan planned to release
> it to the market in March 05 (Its Apr now). Intel boards already
> support IPMI-2.0 in their Xeon64 platforms. So I don't think we
> need to worry about those proprietary SOL extensions in IPMI-1.5 any
> more. Any comments?
>  

they (intel) are STILL selling SOL 1.5 boards and have sold many many 
many of them.

I have too many to count (intel SE7501BR2).
Well, OK I can count to 60 but that's still a  quite a few.