Hi everyone, I've put up alpha releases of FreeIPMI 0.5.0 here:
ftp://ftp.zresearch.com/pub/freeipmi/0.5.0.alpha/ The FreeIPMI 0.5.X line has a number of new features, highlighted by IPMI 2.0 being supported in all FreeIPMI tools. However, the largest change in 0.5.X is consistency between all tools in their command line options, config files, manpages, IPMI implementation, etc. In the beginning of FreeIPMI, many of the tools were developed semi-independently outside of FreeIPMI, leading to a number of the tools having different command line options, manpages, and behaviors once they were all put together into FreeIPMI. I finally grunted it out and fixed most of this. This can lead to backwards compatibility issues for those who may have scripted against the tools. I have attempted to keep backwards compatibility as much as possible, but could not in a number of situations. The IPMI over LAN implementations are more consistent across tools/libraries as well. However, this could break compatibility for some motherboards. It is possible that some tools that worked in FreeIPMI 0.4.X could break under FreeIPMI 0.5.X because there were vendor compliance problems that would be hit under one implementation but not another. I'm hoping a number of people can try the 0.5.0 alpha releases to give me some feedback on what issues you may hit with the changes. I can add more vendor compliance workarounds and/or try to work in more backwards compatibility given affects on users. Thanks, 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