I contacted the iLO ASIC guys and they are checking the request for providing technical information. I also checked the schematics of the DL385G2. The iLO ASIC provides 4 I2C buses to which the temp sensors (SMSC EMC1043) are attached to. I already wrote the driver for the EMC1043 and have a framework in place for the iLO driver. More later... ...juerg On 12/26/06, Thomas Brown <twb0 at lymenet.org> wrote: > Thanks all--if we can get this working there is a large community of HP > ProLiant server users who will benefit. > > Upon tracing the "hplog" process behavior, it seems to read the data is > by using message queues attached to the Proliant System Health Monitor > (hpasmd) process which, in turn, may also rely on data from the HP > Lights-Out Drivers and Agents (hprsm) daemon. > > There are two routes that might be taken here: > > 1. Reverse-engineer the hpasmd process and read values directly from > the HP/Compaq hardware. > or > 2. Write a shim to work in concert with an existing hpasmd process and > feed data back using existing drivers (i.e. /dev/cpqhealth/proc, > /dev/cpqhealth/cevt, etc.) > > -Tom >
