[Freeipmi-devel] [bug #38799] IPMI 2.0 "Special Timestamp values" are not supported

[Rob Swindell]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?38799>

                 Summary: IPMI 2.0 "Special Timestamp values" are not
supported
                 Project: GNU FreeIPMI
            Submitted by: rswindell
            Submitted on: Mon 22 Apr 2013 04:38:24 AM GMT
                Category: ipmi-sel
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Improper Behaviour
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
        Operating System: None

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Details:

IPMI 2.0 section 37.1 ("Special Timestamp values") states that the timestamp
values 0xffffffff and values 0x00000000 through 0x20000000 are to be treat
specially, yet ipmi-sel and bmc-device do not treat these timestamp values
(e.g. from SEL or SDR repository) any different than any other timestamp
values.

To be compliant with IPMI 2.0 section 37.1:

Timestamp value 0xffffffff should be displayed to the user as "unknown" or
"unspecified".

Timestamp values 0x00000000 through 0x20000000 should be displayed as "seconds
since initialization" and not interpreted/displayed as an actual wall-clock
date/time.




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