Enabling watchdog

Doug Ambrisko ambrisko at ambrisko.com
Fri May 14 14:39:26 UTC 2010


Tom Evans writes:
| On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Jeremy Chadwick
| <freebsd at jdc.parodius.com> wrote:
| >
| > I'm a bit confused at this point, Doug. ?At what point did the OP state
| > he has IPMI support or IPMI cards in his system?
| 
| He said he had a Dell PowerEdge 2950 - iirc these all have IPMI.

... and although HW WD doesn't have to be in IPMI, I know for a fact
it is on the base config. of a Dell PE2950 and has been since the PE2650.
However, on the 2650 I saw false trips.  It was one of the reasons I wrote 
ipmi(4).  Eventually, I need to get in sync with jhb to add kernel 
back-trace support to it.  I have some code at work to do it but it needs 
some work to ensure it works in every case etc.

BTW, there is code/patches floating around to control the LCD on these
Dell machines via ipmitool and on the r710 control attributes of the LCD.
Unfortunately the ipmitool folks haven't pick it up.

Doug A.


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