Re: [Freeipmi-users] It is not possible to use `--fru-file` option in the `ipmi-fru` utility on non-IPMI system

[Al Chu]

Hi Konstantin,

Yeah, this seems to be a bug. I suppose it was always assumed people
were on IPMI systems.  I believe this was initially added b/c some IPMI
developers wanted to debug/test their binaries.

I'll add this as a TODO for myself and get back to you with a test
branch you can try.

Al

On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 12:59 +0300, Konstantin Aladyshev wrote:
> Is it possible to use `ipmi-fru` utility to parse local binary FRU
> file?
> I want to do it from a separate host that doesn't have any IPMI
> devices.
> I thought that `--fru-file` option was designed specifically for this
> case, but I can't get it working:
> 
> ~/freeipmi-1.6.6/ipmi-fru$ sudo ./ipmi-fru -v
> --fru-file=./AD-FMCADC2-EBZ-FRU.bin
> could not find inband device
> 
> So there seems to be a bug that assumes you are always running on an
> IPMI system.
> 
> Best regards,
> Konstantin Aladyshev
> 
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