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[Freeipmi-devel] FreeIPMI and GNU
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Anand Babu |
Subject: |
[Freeipmi-devel] FreeIPMI and GNU |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Mar 2004 07:31:31 -0800 |
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> Questionnaire
> =============
>
> * General Information
> ** Package name and version:
FreeIPMI 0.1.0 (Alpha-4 QA-1)
> ** Author <Email>:
Anand Babu <address@hidden>
> ** URL to home page (if any):
http://www.nongnu.org/freeipmi/
> ** URL to sources (if any):
ftp://ftp.californiadigital.com/pub/freeipmi/
> ** Brief description of the package:
FreeIPMI is a programmable/extensible system for building intelligent
platform management applications. This system includes its own portable
implementation of user-space device drivers and implements IPMI 1.5
specification.
Supports
- C library interface (libfreeipmi).
- Shell with readline interface (fish - freeipmi shell).
- Scheme based scripting interface.
Utilities and extensions like "sensors", "bmc-config", "ipmi-sel",
"rmcp-ping", "ipmi-power" are already built on top of this system.
> * Code
> ** Dependencies:
> Please list the package's dependencies (source language, libraries, etc.).
- libguile
- libreadline
> ** Configuration & compilation:
> It might or might not use Autoconf/Automake, but it should meet GNU
> Standards. See http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_48.html.
Yes it uses GNU Autoconf/Automake.
> ** Documentation:
> We recommend using Texinfo (http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/)
> for documentation, and writing both reference and tutorial
> information in the same manual. Please see
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_32.html.
Yes it uses GNU Texinfo.
> * Licensing:
> This is crucial. Both the software itself *and all dependencies*
> (third-party libraries, etc.) must be free software in order to be
> included in GNU.
>
> Please see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html for a
> practical guide to which licenses are free (for GNU's purposes) and
> which are not. Please give specific url's to any licenses involved
> that are not listed on that page.
FreeIPMI and all its dependencies are licensed under GNU GPL
> * Similar projects:
> Please search at least the
> Free Software Directory (http://www.gnu.org/directory/)
> and savannah.gnu.org (http://savannah.gnu.org/search/)
> for projects similar to yours. If any exist,
> please explain what motivated you to write yours and what the
> principal differences are.
No projects listed in http://www.gnu.org/directory/ and
http://savannah.gnu.org/search/.
How ever there are source-forge projects:
- Open IPMI (Linux kernel module)
- IPMItool (uses Open IPMI driver)
- Panicsel IPMI Project (uses Open IPMI driver)
- IPMI on FreeBSD
- ipmitools (uses Open IPMI driver)
FreeIPMI vs Others:
-------------------
- More features.
- Better by design.
* User space portable implementation of device drivers. Designed
with GNU/Hurd in mind.
* Extensible system.
* Scripting, Shell and C API interfaces.
- Actively developed and supported by California Digital
(californiadigital.com), LLNL (llnl.gov) and Intel (intel.com).
- Tested on IA64, IA32 and AMD64 architectures.
- Already in use by a large super computer (4096 64-bit Itanium2
processors with 8TB RAM) and many corporate data centers (like GE,
Synopsys ...)
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