Re: [Freeipmi-users] SUNBMC failure

[Al Chu]

Hey Dave,

> Is there a good reason it's not shipped with freeipmi, as it is with 
> ipmitool?

Honestly, after your e-mail, I had to research it b/c I had
forgotten :-)

GPL and the CDDL (the Sun license) have incompatibilities with each
other (see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html), which is why
I did it this way.  However, it appears the incompatibilities may exist
only w/ linking and not with code.  So presumably I could copy the code
in.  But I'm not sure.  I've been trying to figure this out, but as you
can expect, licenses are hard to understand :-)  I'll ask around, see if
I can tweak this or not.

> Anyhow, surely it shouldn't give an internal error on Solaris, in
> contrast to the behaviour under GNU/Linux:
>   # bmc-info -D SUNBMC
>   bmc-info: device not found
> I'd expect it to bail out if HAVE_BMC_INTF_H isn't true.

Hmmm.  I think the reason it fails like that on Linux is b/c /dev/bmc
doesn't exist.  This is in contrast to Solaris where /dev/bmc does
exist, but something doesn't allow the code to work with it (thus
"device not found" would not be a good error code).  Looking through the
error code list, IPMI_ERR_DEVICE_NOT_SUPPORTED is probably the better
one.  Sound like a good error code to change to?

Al

On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 08:13 -0700, Dave Love wrote:
> Al Chu <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Hey Dave,
> >
> > If I had to guess, the driver may have not been compiled properly.
> > Did ./configure find the bmc_intf.h file properly?  When I run configure
> > on Linux, I see:
> >
> > checking for bmc_intf.h... no
> > configure: WARNING: cannot build sunbmc driver
> >
> > when it can't find bmc_intf.h.
> >
> > See README.sunbmc for info.
> 
> Oops, sorry.  I thought I had everything installed on the system from
> building before, and failed to spot that README when I looked for info
> -- but you're right.  Is there a good reason it's not shipped with
> freeipmi, as it is with ipmitool?  The licence is BSD-ish.  Otherwise,
> the README could at least reference
> http://*ipmitool.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/ipmitool/ipmitool/src/plugins/bmc/bmc_intf.h
> which might be more stable than an OpenSolaris URL.
> 
> Anyhow, surely it shouldn't give an internal error on Solaris, in
> contrast to the behaviour under GNU/Linux:
>   # bmc-info -D SUNBMC
>   bmc-info: device not found
> I'd expect it to bail out if HAVE_BMC_INTF_H isn't true.
> 
> > If it did find the .h file correctly, perhaps strace can shed more light
> > on the issue?
> 
> [Normally truss(1) on Solaris, as strace isn't readily available
> packaged as far as I know.]
> 
-- 
Albert Chu
address@hidden
Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory