[Freeipmi-devel] Re: URGENT question

[Zdenek . Macura]

Hi Al,

You can ignore our previous e-mails, we now know we must use the file 
otherwise it will not work at all.

Zdenek

On 07/31/09 03:51, Zdenek Macura wrote:
> Hi Al,
>
> Thanks for the answer, but let me be more concrete with the question:
> I understand that the file is necessary for the SUN /dev/bmc driver, but
> what is the real impact if sunbmc driver is not compiled.
> Will it mean that freeipmi will not work on OpenSolaris at all or just 
> some minor
> functionality of freeipmi will not work ?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Zdenek
>
> Al Chu wrote:
> > Hey Jan,
> >
> > The bmc_intf.h file is necessary for the Sun /dev/bmc driver.  I don't
> > include it in FreeIPMI b/c the licensing of OpenSolaris conflicts w/
> > FreeIPMI.  Anyone who wants to compile FreeIPMI to work w/ it just has
> > to make sure bmc_intf.h is in their include path so it can be found and
> > the sunbmc driver can get compiled.
> >
> > You can read about it in the README.sunbmc.
> >
> > Al
> >
> > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 23:31 +0200, jf222792 wrote:
> >  
> > > Hi Al,
> > > please could I have a question regarding one file? In freeipmi 
> > > porting project which I inherited from my collegue is presented file:
> > > /usr/src/cmd/freeipmi/bmc_intf.h
> > > But I have no idea about its purpose. It should be some kind of BMC 
> > > driver. Do you have some more information about the file and its 
> > > purpose? Does it have to be somehow integrated into untared freeipmi 
> > > project before build or project works even without it and I can 
> > > simply remove that file from my porting project? Please let my know 
> > > ASAP, thank you
> > >    Jan Forch, Sun Microsystems
> > >