tree 48c78cdf92ea3210e0ba5f74661355651fb42bc4
parent ca93bb10647a709322d6d1e6c043dea75f679c97
author Paul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com> 1660826201 +0000
committer Paul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com> 1670842246 +0000

Specify "8-bit ASCII + Latin 1" SDR encoding

Applications using OpenSolaris libipmi can't handle "Unicode" (type 0)
encoding for the sensor names [0].

This results in issues with VMWare ESXi which uses IPMI to fetch sensor
data from the BMC, all the names are shown as "Unspecified 1" (if
default EntityId is used), so status page, SEL entries and the logs
become very confusing.

Fix this by telling it to process all bytes as is by using "8-bit ASCII
+ Latin 1" type.

The patch is untested however similar changes to intel-ipmi-oem were
tried with VMWare ESXi 7.0 Update 2 and regular ipmitool (using GNU
FreeIPMI), both show names correctly.

[0] https://github.com/kofemann/opensolaris/blob/master/usr/src/lib/libipmi/common/ipmi_util.c#L258

Signed-off-by: Paul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com>
Change-Id: Idf19833e4877af1acb32f016e85e93c6f58df27e