abshnasko wrote:
> Hi, I am a student interested in undertaking your IPMI feature
> implementation. I have done my research on this topic and I have experience
> with OSCAR, but before I begin the proposal I have a question:
> 
> Am I allowed to use other freely available code or software products to
> accomplish this project? For example, a good GNU IPMI framework called
> FreeIPMI is available, and my current plan is to base my implementation off
> of their framework. Is this allowed, or does my final product need to be
> 100% original? Let me know.

Hi Travis,

Every piece of Oscar is imported from other projects, with OSCAR being
the glue to put them together.  In light of this statement, I'm pretty
sure that using ipmitool, or freeimpi would be a very good place to
work.  There is enough other work involved with getting it integrated
"properly" into OSCAR, that rewriting the ipmi tool would be a waste of
time.  For example, adding the MAC addresses for the IMPI cards into the
oscar database, and setting up username/password pairs for them all.

However, making it compartmentalized enough so that someone can choose
between impitool and freeimpi would be useful.

One thing that isn't in the SoC description, is possibly setting up
watchdog timers on the BMC/IPMI cards if they are available..

Paul

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