FreeIPMI 0.7.11 Released

[Al Chu11]

0.7.11 - 07/28/09
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o In ipmi-fru, fix FRU output corner cases.
o In ipmi-oem, support Dell poweredge, Dell Xanadu2, and new Inventec
  OEM commands.
o In ipmi-sensors and ipmimonitoring, continue reading sensors after a
  "request parameter not supported" error.
o In libfreeipmi, support Get System Information parameters command.
o Support --without-encryption build option .
o Do not require execute permissions on driver devices.
o Fix portability for some embedded systems.

http://ftp.zresearch.com/pub/freeipmi/0.7.11/

Al

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[Jan Forch]

Hi Al,
please could I have a question regarding one file? In freeipmi porting
project which I inherited from my collegue is presented file:
/usr/src/cmd/freeipmi/bmc_intf.h
But I have no idea about its purpose. It should be some kind of BMC
driver. Do you have some more information about the file and its
purpose? Does it have to be somehow integrated into untared freeipmi
project before build or project works even without it and I can simply
remove that file from my porting project? Please let my know ASAP, thank you
   Jan Forch, Sun Microsystems


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[Al Chu11]

Hey Jan,

The bmc_intf.h file is necessary for the Sun /dev/bmc driver.  I don't
include it in FreeIPMI b/c the licensing of OpenSolaris conflicts w/
FreeIPMI.  Anyone who wants to compile FreeIPMI to work w/ it just has
to make sure bmc_intf.h is in their include path so it can be found and
the sunbmc driver can get compiled.

You can read about it in the README.sunbmc.

Al

On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 23:31 +0200, jf222792 wrote:

> Hi Al,
> please could I have a question regarding one file? In freeipmi porting
> project which I inherited from my collegue is presented file:
> /usr/src/cmd/freeipmi/bmc_intf.h
> But I have no idea about its purpose. It should be some kind of BMC
> driver. Do you have some more information about the file and its
> purpose? Does it have to be somehow integrated into untared freeipmi
> project before build or project works even without it and I can simply
> remove that file from my porting project? Please let my know ASAP, thank you
>    Jan Forch, Sun Microsystems

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[Zdenek Macura]

Hi Al,

Thanks for the answer, but let me be more concrete with the question:
I understand that the file is necessary for the SUN /dev/bmc driver, but
what is the real impact if sunbmc driver is not compiled.
Will it mean that freeipmi will not work on OpenSolaris at all or just
some minor
functionality of freeipmi will not work ?

Thanks a lot

Zdenek

Al Chu wrote:

> Hey Jan,
>
> The bmc_intf.h file is necessary for the Sun /dev/bmc driver.  I don't
> include it in FreeIPMI b/c the licensing of OpenSolaris conflicts w/
> FreeIPMI.  Anyone who wants to compile FreeIPMI to work w/ it just has
> to make sure bmc_intf.h is in their include path so it can be found and
> the sunbmc driver can get compiled.
>
> You can read about it in the README.sunbmc.
>
> Al
>
> On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 23:31 +0200, jf222792 wrote:
>  
>> Hi Al,
>> please could I have a question regarding one file? In freeipmi porting
>> project which I inherited from my collegue is presented file:
>> /usr/src/cmd/freeipmi/bmc_intf.h
>> But I have no idea about its purpose. It should be some kind of BMC
>> driver. Do you have some more information about the file and its
>> purpose? Does it have to be somehow integrated into untared freeipmi
>> project before build or project works even without it and I can simply
>> remove that file from my porting project? Please let my know ASAP, thank you
>>    Jan Forch, Sun Microsystems
>>    

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[Jan Forch]

Hi Al,
thanks for comments. I added bmc_intf.h file by using  
CPPFLAGS="-I/my/bmc_intf_path/" example in README.sunbmc to build of our
project. Could you be more concrete about specific commands and its
options which were enabled by adding bmc_intf.h file -> So I can test
whether it realy works and functionality were enabled. Thanks,
   Jan

On 07/31/09 01:56, Al Chu wrote:

> Hey Jan,
>
> The bmc_intf.h file is necessary for the Sun /dev/bmc driver.  I don't
> include it in FreeIPMI b/c the licensing of OpenSolaris conflicts w/
> FreeIPMI.  Anyone who wants to compile FreeIPMI to work w/ it just has
> to make sure bmc_intf.h is in their include path so it can be found and
> the sunbmc driver can get compiled.
>
> You can read about it in the README.sunbmc.
>
> Al
>
> On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 23:31 +0200, jf222792 wrote:
>  
>> Hi Al,
>> please could I have a question regarding one file? In freeipmi porting
>> project which I inherited from my collegue is presented file:
>> /usr/src/cmd/freeipmi/bmc_intf.h
>> But I have no idea about its purpose. It should be some kind of BMC
>> driver. Do you have some more information about the file and its
>> purpose? Does it have to be somehow integrated into untared freeipmi
>> project before build or project works even without it and I can simply
>> remove that file from my porting project? Please let my know ASAP, thank you
>>    Jan Forch, Sun Microsystems
>>    

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[Zdenek Macura]

Hi Al,

You can ignore our previous e-mails, we now know we must use the file
otherwise it will not work at all.

Zdenek

On 07/31/09 03:51, Zdenek Macura wrote:

> Hi Al,
>
> Thanks for the answer, but let me be more concrete with the question:
> I understand that the file is necessary for the SUN /dev/bmc driver, but
> what is the real impact if sunbmc driver is not compiled.
> Will it mean that freeipmi will not work on OpenSolaris at all or just
> some minor
> functionality of freeipmi will not work ?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Zdenek
>
> Al Chu wrote:
>> Hey Jan,
>>
>> The bmc_intf.h file is necessary for the Sun /dev/bmc driver.  I don't
>> include it in FreeIPMI b/c the licensing of OpenSolaris conflicts w/
>> FreeIPMI.  Anyone who wants to compile FreeIPMI to work w/ it just has
>> to make sure bmc_intf.h is in their include path so it can be found and
>> the sunbmc driver can get compiled.
>>
>> You can read about it in the README.sunbmc.
>>
>> Al
>>
>> On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 23:31 +0200, jf222792 wrote:
>>  
>>> Hi Al,
>>> please could I have a question regarding one file? In freeipmi
>>> porting project which I inherited from my collegue is presented file:
>>> /usr/src/cmd/freeipmi/bmc_intf.h
>>> But I have no idea about its purpose. It should be some kind of BMC
>>> driver. Do you have some more information about the file and its
>>> purpose? Does it have to be somehow integrated into untared freeipmi
>>> project before build or project works even without it and I can
>>> simply remove that file from my porting project? Please let my know
>>> ASAP, thank you
>>>    Jan Forch, Sun Microsystems
>>>    
>

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[Al Chu11]

Hi Jan,

The /dev/bmc driver is primarily to do inband communication.  So the
option(s) that really matter are the --driver-type and --driver-device
options.  Although, the inband communication should probably find that
device and work by default.

Al

On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 13:02 +0200, Jan Forch wrote:

> Hi Al,
> thanks for comments. I added bmc_intf.h file by using  
> CPPFLAGS="-I/my/bmc_intf_path/" example in README.sunbmc to build of our
> project. Could you be more concrete about specific commands and its
> options which were enabled by adding bmc_intf.h file -> So I can test
> whether it realy works and functionality were enabled. Thanks,
>    Jan
>
> On 07/31/09 01:56, Al Chu wrote:
> > Hey Jan,
> >
> > The bmc_intf.h file is necessary for the Sun /dev/bmc driver.  I don't
> > include it in FreeIPMI b/c the licensing of OpenSolaris conflicts w/
> > FreeIPMI.  Anyone who wants to compile FreeIPMI to work w/ it just has
> > to make sure bmc_intf.h is in their include path so it can be found and
> > the sunbmc driver can get compiled.
> >
> > You can read about it in the README.sunbmc.
> >
> > Al
> >
> > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 23:31 +0200, jf222792 wrote:
> >  
> >> Hi Al,
> >> please could I have a question regarding one file? In freeipmi porting
> >> project which I inherited from my collegue is presented file:
> >> /usr/src/cmd/freeipmi/bmc_intf.h
> >> But I have no idea about its purpose. It should be some kind of BMC
> >> driver. Do you have some more information about the file and its
> >> purpose? Does it have to be somehow integrated into untared freeipmi
> >> project before build or project works even without it and I can simply
> >> remove that file from my porting project? Please let my know ASAP, thank you
> >>    Jan Forch, Sun Microsystems
> >>    
>

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