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Old 01-25-2008, 06:56 AM   #1
Yoga Bharathi
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Exclamation Writing own Linux ipmi driver

Is it possible to write own IPMI driver in linux?

If the answer is `can` then how difficult it is?
I dont know much about linux device drivers. Please let me know if anyone knows...
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Old 01-25-2008, 07:08 AM   #2
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Yes, you can write your own drivers if you have the programming skills.

For more information, see:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/.../drivers_linux
http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
http://tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/ge...s/devices.html
 
Old 01-25-2008, 07:15 AM   #3
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