Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:59:02 -0600 | From | Russ Anderson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y" |
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:46:04PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:40 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > This is also a problem for systems with functional BMCs. Our > > large cluster systems do all IPMI traffic (monitoring) through > > a system controller back door. We do not want the kernel > > doing IPMI commands on those systems. > > Why not?
Because some customers want to use cpu cycles for their application and let the ipmi monitoring go on through the system controller network.
-- Russ Anderson, Kernel and Performance Software Team Manager SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@sgi.com
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