Re: [Freeipmi-devel] register spacing

[Albert Chu]

Hey all,

My other concern is how to add this to the API.  Right now the register
spacing is hard coded as +1 in libfreeipmi/src/ipmi-kcs-interface.h. 
I'm hardcoding +4 for my testing/debugging right now.  But a long term
solution requires something else.  Almost all of the kcs interface only
allows the user to pass in the base port address, but not a register offset.

There are several ways to fix this problem.  I think anything involving
an API change isn't one of them.  We could add a global variable and
ipmi_kcs_register_spacing() initialization function?  Configuration
files are also possible.

Al

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Albert Chu
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----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Zimmerman <address@hidden>
Date: Friday, December 3, 2004 7:26 am
Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-devel] register spacing

> 
> Al> I got a board that has register spacing, so 0xCA8 is the base KCS
> Al> address and 0xCAC is the status register.
> 
> Al> Not really sure of the best way to handle this.  First, we 
> probablyAl> need the probing code to search for register spacing.  
> I'm not too
> Al> familiar with the probing, I'm only starting to look at this code.
> 
> So - the code to get spacing exists in smbios.c but is commented out.
> It can certainly be uncommented; I'll try to test it on the Tiger4 
> overthe weekend if I find time.
> 
> I still don't know what to do about PCI (which is currently not being
> used).  Maybe I'l just add a "don't know" alternative to the spacing
> enum.  Have to look at pciutils again (that was the template for my 
> PCIcode).
> 
> Cheers, Ian
> 
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