[Openipmi-developer] New releases of the IPMI driver and library, new docs available

[Corey M. <mi...@ac...>]

Things have been percolating for a while, and it's time to release a 
bunch of new stuff.

First of all, at http://openipmi.sf.net, I have uploaded a new document 
to help users of IPMI and OpenIPMI.  Take a look.  It is very rough, but 
I believe it contains a lot of useful information about IPMI in general 
and OpenIPMI in specific.  When it is finished, I hope it will alleviate 
the need to have to look at the IPMI spec.

Second, I have lots of driver updates.  See the Sourceforge release page 
for these.

Lastly, I have uploaded library version 1.4.1 as an experimental 
version.  This has reworked the locking code so that locks are not held 
in user callbacks.  It also includes the previously reference document.  
It has some interface updates (as I wrote the document I found 
inconsistencies here and there) but should be fully backwards compatible 
with the 1.3 releases.

Enjoy!

-Corey

PS - There are some people working on IPMI 2.0 RMCP+ LAN code, so that 
may be coming soon.

PPS - If anyone wants to work on the document to flesh it out, please 
contact me.  There are lots of sections to work on.