From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262594AbTDUVaE (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2003 17:30:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262599AbTDUVaE (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2003 17:30:04 -0400 Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com ([204.127.202.63]:57224 "EHLO sccrmhc03.attbi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262594AbTDUVaD (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2003 17:30:03 -0400 Message-ID: <3EA465AA.6000507@acm.org> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:42:02 -0500 From: Corey Minyard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML Subject: Experimental IPMI driver X-Enigmail-Version: 0.74.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have been working on a new version of the IPMI driver. It's actually not terribly different than the old version (no functional or interface differences), but has the following differences: * It will properly parse ACPI tables to find IPMI interfaces (the old driver had some ACPI parsing code, but it was broken). * It supports a SMIC interface. * It has a socket interface to IPMI. I'm putting it out for people to beat on, so have at it! You can get it from SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/openipmi/, under "Experimental Driver". There are 2.5.68 and 2.4.20 versions. -Corey