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@@ -441,17 +441,20 @@ ACPI, and if none of those then a KCS device at the spec-specified
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0xca2. If you want to turn this off, set the "trydefaults" option to
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false.
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-If you have high-res timers compiled into the kernel, the driver will
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-use them to provide much better performance. Note that if you do not
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-have high-res timers enabled in the kernel and you don't have
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-interrupts enabled, the driver will run VERY slowly. Don't blame me,
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+If your IPMI interface does not support interrupts and is a KCS or
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+SMIC interface, the IPMI driver will start a kernel thread for the
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+interface to help speed things up. This is a low-priority kernel
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+thread that constantly polls the IPMI driver while an IPMI operation
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+is in progress. The force_kipmid module parameter will all the user to
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+force this thread on or off. If you force it off and don't have
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+interrupts, the driver will run VERY slowly. Don't blame me,
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these interfaces suck.
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The driver supports a hot add and remove of interfaces. This way,
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interfaces can be added or removed after the kernel is up and running.
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-This is done using /sys/modules/ipmi_si/hotmod, which is a write-only
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-parameter. You write a string to this interface. The string has the
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-format:
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+This is done using /sys/modules/ipmi_si/parameters/hotmod, which is a
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+write-only parameter. You write a string to this interface. The string
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+has the format:
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<op1>[:op2[:op3...]]
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The "op"s are:
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add|remove,kcs|bt|smic,mem|i/o,<address>[,<opt1>[,<opt2>[,...]]]
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