Re: [Freeipmi-devel] 64-bit issues with OpenIPMI driver on FreeBSD-7.2

[Mark Lokowich]

Dmitry Frolov wrote:
> Mark, this looks like a problem with alignment, did You use "pragma
> pack" in your application?

There are some pragma packs in the real app, but I'm not able to 
reproduce this problem in my test app using similar packing.  It does 
seem to be a compiler-related issue, but I've perused switches, pragmas 
and the like to no avail.
> 2009/12/4 Mark Lokowich <address@hidden>:
> > I’m having problems using the OpenIPMI driver on a 64-bit FreeBSD-7.2
> > system.  Seems that the ipmi_req structure is being sized at 0x20 bytes when
> > it should be 0x28.  This is causing incorrect encoding of the ioctl
> > IPMICTL_SEND_COMMAND, failing the operation.  I tried using the 32-bit
> > compatibility mode, but this was creating other problems with casting and
> > pointer widths.  This problem is only evident from a C++ application that
> > uses the driver, not when built as a standalone IPMI test utility.  Any
> > help?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mark (address@hidden)