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28.Dd September 30, 2006
29.Dt IPMI 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm ipmi
33.Nd "OpenIPMI compatible IPMI interface driver"
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Cd "device ipmi"
36.Sh DESCRIPTION
37The
38.Tn IPMI
39(Intelligent Platform Management Interface) is a standard for
40monitoring system hardware by permitting generic code to detect
41and monitor the sensors in a system.
42The
43.Tn IPMI
44standard offers watchdog support, an FRU database, and other
45support extensions.
46It is currently being adopted by the makers of many
47single board and embedded system manufacturers.
48.Pp
49The
50.Nm
51driver in
52.Fx
53is heavily adopted from the standard and
54.Tn Linux
55driver; however, not all features described in the
56standard are supported.
57.Sh IOCTLS
58Sending and receiving messages through the
59.Nm
60driver requires the use of
61.Xr ioctl 2 .
62The ioctls are used due to the complexity of
63data sent to and from the device.
64The
65.Xr ioctl 2
66command codes below are defined in
67.In sys/ipmi.h .
68The third argument to
69.Xr ioctl 2
70should be a pointer to the type indicated.
71.Pp
72Currently the following ioctls are supported:
73.Bl -tag -width indent
74.It Dv IPMICTL_RECEIVE_MSG Pq Vt "struct ipmi_recv"
75Receive a message.
76Possible error values:
77.Bl -tag -width Er
78.It Bq Er EAGAIN
79No messages are in the process queue.
80.It Bq Er EFAULT
81An address supplied was invalid.
82.It Bq Er EMSGSIZE
83The address could not fit in the message buffer and
84will remain in the buffer.
85.El
86.It Dv IPMICTL_RECEIVE_MSG_TRUNC Pq Vt "struct ipmi_recv"
87Like
88.Dv IPMICTL_RECEIVE_MSG
89but if the message cannot fit into the buffer, it
90will truncate the contents instead of leaving the data
91in the buffer.
92.It Dv IPMICTL_SEND_COMMAND Pq Vt "struct ipmi_req"
93Send a message to the interface.
94Possible error values:
95.Bl -tag -width Er
96.It Bq Er EFAULT
97An address supplied was invalid
98.It Bq Er ENOMEM
99Buffers could not be allowed for the command, out of memory.
100.El
101.It Dv IPMICTL_SET_MY_ADDRESS_CMD Pq Vt "unsigned int"
102Set the slave address for source messages.
103.It Dv IPMICTL_GET_MY_ADDRESS_CMD Pq Vt "unsigned int"
104Get the slave address for source messages.
105.It Dv IPMICTL_SET_MY_LUN_CMD Pq Vt "unsigned int"
106Set the slave LUN for source messages.
107.It Dv IPMICTL_GET_MY_LUN_CMD Pq Vt "unsigned int"
108Get the slave LUN for source messages.
109.El
110.Ss Unimplemented Ioctls
111.Bl -tag -width indent
112.It Dv IPMICTL_REGISTER_FOR_CMD Pq Vt "struct ipmi_cmdspec"
113Register to receive a specific command
114Possible error values:
115.Bl -tag -width Er
116.It Bq Er EFAULT
117An supplied address was invalid.
118.It Bq Er EBUSY
119The network function/command is already in use.
120.It Bq Er ENOMEM
121Could not allocate memory.
122.El
123.It Dv IPMICTL_UNREGISTER_FOR_CMD Pq Vt "struct ipmi_cmdspec"
124Unregister to receive a specific command
125Possible error values:
126.Bl -tag -width Er
127.It Bq Er EFAULT
128An address supplied was invalid.
129.It Bq Er ENOENT
130The network function/command was not found.
131.El
132.El
133.Ss Stub Only Ioctl
134.Bl -tag -width indent
135.It Dv IPMICTL_SET_GETS_EVENTS_CMD Pq Vt int
136Set whether this interface receives events.
137Possible error values:
138.Bl -tag -width Er
139.It Bq Er EFAULT
140An address supplied was invalid.
141.El
142.El
143.Sh SEE ALSO
144.Xr ioctl 2 ,
145.Xr watchdog 4 ,
146.Xr watchdog 8 ,
147.Xr watchdogd 8 ,
148.Xr watchdog 9
149.Sh HISTORY
150The
151.Nm
152driver first appeared in
153.Fx 7.0 .
154.Sh AUTHORS
155.An -nosplit
156The
157.Nm
158driver was written by
159.An Doug Ambrisko Aq ambrisko@FreeBSD.org .
160This manual page was written by
161.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org .
162.Sh BUGS
163Not all features of the MontaVista driver are supported.
164.Pp
165Currently, IPMB and BT modes are not implemented.
166