Just thought I'd send some notes + updates. The plan is to commit one more tool (ipmi-fru) into FreeIPMI before releasing 0.4.0-beta. The tool has been complete for quite some time, however I have not received GPL approval from my organization (it normally doesn't take this long, not sure why it's hung up) to release it into FreeIPMI publically.
I had planned to release the 0.4.0 beta in early July. Hopefully I get GPL approval soon and we can still release around that time. I looked into and actually began development of IPMI 2.0 protocol support into UDM so it could be supported in most of the FreeIPMI tools (i.e. ipmi-sensors, ipmi-sel, etc.). However, after a half a day of effort, I have now abandoned it for the 0.4.0 release. The way that UDM is architected makes it quite difficult to implement. In essence, the issue lies in the implementation of ipmi_lan_open_session() and how it calls other UDM functions (i.e. ipmi_cmd_set_session_privilege()) before UDM is setup and has completed for the user. Due to the nature of the IPMI 1.5 protocol, these issues could be worked around relatively easily. However, w/ IPMI 2.0, the above architecture becomes far more difficult to workaround. Ipmi_lan_open_session() should be re-written to not use any other UDM functions. A.B., is someone on the Z-research staff (perhaps Ragha) interested in re-architecting this? I could do the subsequent IPMI 2.0 support afterwards? I still need to think a bit more about the code architecture before we do it. Al -- Albert Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] 925-422-5311 Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list Freeipmi-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
