The patchfiles in this directory were used to enable the ipmitool + OpenIPMI KCS driver for 8G Dell PE servers.  

Using ipmitool, server power actions, sensor readings, and FRU information display (etc, see ipmitool manpage) are possible.  With a properly configured IPMI v1.5 compliant server (eg. Dell 8G PE models), these actions can be done remotely, over the LAN.  The ipmi_kcs_drv.patch is not needed for that, it's only needed for the ipmitool 'open' interface, locally on the server. 

1.ipmi_kcs_drv.patch:
a patch for the OpenIPMI KCS driver to enable the driver on PowerEdge 8G platforms (generated against the linux-2.4.21-4EL kernel source). this patch will be superceded by OpenIPMI v33 release on sourceforge, once Corey releases it.

2. ipmitool-1.5.9.patch: 
a patch for the openipmi tool that fixes the FRU command (generated against ipmitool-1.5.9). this patch will be superceded by the next available ipmitools release higher than 1.5.9 on sourceforge, once Duncan releases it.

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08 Oct 2004:
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The ipmitool-1.6.0-patched2.diff corrects a LAN authentication bug with IPMItool 1.6.0 and Dell PowerEdge 8G servers, and also adds PEF reporting capabilities.

Here is a suggested set of steps to use in applying the patch:
- mkdir /opt/ipmi/sb
- <download ipmitool-1.6.0.tar.bz2 from sf.net to /opt/ipmi/sb>
- <download ipmitool-1.6.0-patched2.diff from linux.dell.com/files/ipmi to /opt/ipmi/sb>
- cd /opt/ipmi/sb
- bunzip2 -d ipmitool-1.6.0.tar.bz2 
- tar xvf ipmitool-1.6.0.tar
- cd ipmitool-1.6.0
- patch -p1 < ../ipmitool-1.6.0-patched2.diff 
- ./configure
- aclocal
- automake
- make