Hi, Sorry David I havn't touched the bmcsensors port for a while, there are some issues people have contacted me about (from what I remember jsut pre 1.0 ipmi support and extra sensor type support) but nothing serious. I woudl like to merge all the patches/bugfixes Mark has made to the 2.4 bmcsensors though at some point. I currently jsut entered a new co-op term with a large company that requires you to get permission to work on OSS projects in your free time so I was waiting for that permission before I resumed development. I would very much like to see the 2.6 version of the driver merged into the main lm-sensors at some point, I want to maek sure that it has had sufficient testing and that any relavant bug fixes are merged since the time of the last port. Yani On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 23:51:56 +0100, David Cannings <lists at edeca.net> wrote: > On Wednesday 22 September 2004 15:03, Jean Delvare wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:49:17 -0400, Mark Studebaker wrote > > > > > If it's not in the RPM and you're running a 2.4 kernel then get our > > > release from our website. We don't make the RPMs. If you're running > > > 2.6 then wait until the port is finished and included in the kernel. > > > > BTW Mark, could you care about reviewing the proposed bmcsensors port and > > submitting it to Greg once it is OK? I think only you have knowledge about > > BMC. I sure don't. I think I also remember you have hardware for testing, > > while I don't. > > I tested this port on an Intel L440GX SMP board and unfortunately did not have > much success. I believe it is due to the fact the board does not implement > IPMI 1.0 (or above). > > There was a patch for 2.4.x to add support for my board to the IPMI code, thus > making bmcsensors work for it. Unfortunately, I use 2.6. If the code from > the 2.4 patch were somehow ported into the 2.6 bmcsensors driver, I could > likely test the driver much more thoroughly. > > I have contacted both the author of the 2.6 port and the 2.4 patch a number of > times and neither have responded to me. I am not competent enough to do the > coding myself unfortunately, so I'll just have to hope somebody else with an > interest manages to do it. > > I am more than happy to test code on the board if people can supply it. > > David > >
