Agreed. That's why I put IPMI-BMC detection in sensors-detect in 2.6.3; once people knew they had IPMI-BMC, maybe someone would write a driver. We've had maybe 1 or 2 people ask about it in the 4 1/2 months since 2.6.3 was released. And no volunteers. If you start the work, let us know, and we will add the information to our 'new drivers' page. One complication - IPMI defines both an SMBus and sensors. So the development may involve both 'bus' and 'chip' drivers. mds phil at netroedge.com wrote: > > Mostly it's because there hasn't been the effort/time/interest. > There are also some mild arguments against depending on platform > specific features, like IPMI, instead of driving the hardware directly > (a POSIX thing), but we'd like to see an IPMI driver. > > The implementation would be pretty basic, I would think. It would be > like a chip driver (see chips/lm75.c) which doesn't depend on a bus > driver. Since this could migrate into the mainstream kernel, it would > need to support, or at least cleanly stub out, on unsupport > architectures instead of causing compiling nightmares. > > Mark, any comments on this? > > Phil > > On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 05:24:34PM -0400, GOBEILLE,BOB (HP-FtCollins,ex1) wrote: > > Phil, > > I see from the lm-sensors newdrivers web page that there is no support > > planned for IPMI (BMC). Is this because the lm-sensors developers don't > > think that IPMI support belongs in lm-sensors or because no one has had the > > time to do it or because no one has hardware with a BMC? > > > > I work in the Hewlett Packard Linux R&D lab and I would sure like lm-sensors > > to talk IPMI so that existing tools that use lm-sensors will work with the > > BMC machines that we have. We don't have anyone in the lab who is very > > familiar with lm-sensors so if we tried to contribute this we would be > > starting from scratch. This is still a possibility but I wanted to get an > > idea if there was a philisophical argument against putting IPMI into > > lm-sensors. > > > > Thanks, > > Bob Gobeille > > Hewlett Packard Corporation > > Bob.Gobeille at hp.com > > -- > Philip Edelbrock -- IS Manager -- Edge Design, Corvallis, OR > phil at netroedge.com -- http://www.netroedge.com/~phil > PGP F16: 01 D2 FD 01 B5 46 F4 F0 3A 8B 9D 7E 14 7F FB 7A
