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Re: [Freeipmi-devel] [PATCH] freeimpi in embedded world


From: Al Chu
Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-devel] [PATCH] freeimpi in embedded world
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:27:02 -0700

Hey Fillod,

Beta is released here:

http://ftp.zresearch.com/pub/freeipmi/qa-release/freeipmi-0.7.11.beta1.tar.gz

LMK if it's ok for you guys.  The configure option is
--without-encryption.

Al

On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 15:17 -0700, Al Chu wrote:
> Hey Fillod,
> 
> Ugh.  I began to work on a patch for "--without-ipmioverlan" (as I
> called it), but ultimately, I'm finding this patch too cumbersome to
> write.  LAN/networking code is *everywhere* and the #ifdef-ing is
> ridiculously invasive.
> 
> So, for now, I think I'm going to clean up your original patch to make a
> configure option "--without-encryption", which will not link gcrypt and
> effectively make IPMI 2.0 useless.  Users who run the tools/use the libs
> under this conditions will get some type of error.  I'll try to get a
> tar.gz out to you semi-soon to see if it's fine.
> 
> Al
> 
> On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 09:47 -0700, Al Chu wrote:
> > Hi Fillod,
> > 
> > Thanks for the patch and a number of the fixes within it.  Thinking
> > about it a little bit, instead of just checking for gcrypt, I'm actually
> > thinking a compile option for "in-band only" might be more appropriate.
> > I assume you won't do IPMI over LAN at all??  If so, I can begin working
> > on a patch for 0.7.11 for this.  Please LMK.
> > 
> > I'll get the remaining parts of your patch in the HEAD and 0.7.X branch.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Al
> > 
> > On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 17:41 +0200, Fillod Stephane wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I don't know whether it's been done already, me and a colleague, 
> > > we're trying to use freeipmi in an embedded machine. The machine
> > > is running Linux 2.6 nodes on powerpc SoC. The cross-compilation
> > > tool chain is based on uClibc, and we have to keep the library
> > > dependency low.
> > > 
> > > Please find attached a patch against freeipmi 0.7.10 with following
> > > changes:
> > > 
> > > * Allow FreeIPMI to build without libgcrypt and libgpg-error. 
> > >   This proves useful for embedded machines using only SSIF/openipmi.
> > >   Feel free to comment on the way how to make libgcrypt optional.
> > >   BTW, there was a typo in configure.ac: have_gcrypte_header.
> > > * Check for cbrt(), which may be missing in uClibc.
> > > * common/src/toolcommon/tool-cmdline-common.c: no need to check X_OK 
> > >   file access right upon driver device, this is too restrictive.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for making available freeimpi.
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-- 
Albert Chu
address@hidden
Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory





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