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BIOS
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4.1.17 BIOS Interface towards OS
4.1.17.1 Proprietary BIOS Data Area (BDA) Bytes
The BIOS provides control for warm or cold reset types through the BIOS Data Area (BDA). The
OS requires following BDA bytes:
4.1.17.2 BIOS CLI Tool - IPMIBPAR
The IPMIBPAR tool is used to change the IPMI Boot Parameter list when Linux is up and running.
It supports the following options.
BUFFER SIZE 10 16 Printouts buffer size in bytes.
LENGTH 12 8 The length of the floating pointer structure table in
bytes. The version 1.00 structure is 14 bytes long; so
this field contains 0Eh.
CHECKSUM 13 8 A checksum of the complete pointer structure. All
bytes specified by the length field, including
CHECKSUM and reserved bytes, must add up to
zero.
Table 4-2 Printout Floating Structure (continued)
Field
Offset (in
bytes:bits) Length (in
bits)
Description
40:00 I/O addresses of four COM ports
40:72 BIOS warm reset flag.
40:D0 BIOS warm reset counter.
Table 4-3 BIOS CLI Tool - IPMIBPAR
Option Description
-d Enable debug output
-a xx IPMB Address, if not present local IPMC is used
-i Get device ID
-g Get IPMI Boot Parameter USER area