Re: IPMI

From: Wichert Akkerman (wichert@wiggy.net)
Date: Tue Jan 14 2003 - 09:59:41 EST

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Previously Corey Minyard wrote:
> config IPMI_HANDLER
> tristate 'IPMI top-level message handler'
> help
> This enables the central IPMI message handler, required for IPMI
> to work. Note that you must have this enabled to enable any
> other IPMI things. IPMI is a standard for managing sensors
> (temperature, voltage, etc.) in a system. If you don't know
> what it is, your system probably doesn't have it and you can
> ignore this option. See Documentation/IPMI.txt for more
> details on the driver.

With modern systems it is quite likely that the system does have IPMI
but the user has no idea wat IPMI is.

Wichert.

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