Intel IPMI OEM support library

This component is intended to provide Intel-specific IPMI[3] command handlers for OpenBMC. These handlers are intended to integrate BMC with servers based on Intel architecture.

Overview

intel-ipmi-oem serves as an extension[1] to OpenBMC IPMI daemon[2]. It is compiled as a shared library and intended to both:

• override existing implementation of standard IPMI commands to comply with Intel-specific solutions,
• provide implementation for non-standard OEM extensions.

Capabilities

Related features provided by the library are grouped in separate source files. Main extensions to vanilla OpenBMC IPMI stack are the following:

• Acquiring SMBIOS data over IPMI
• Commands for better integration with Intel hardware
• Firmware update extensions
• Extended parsing of IPMI Platform Events[4]

References

1. OpenBMC IPMI Architecture
2. Phosphor IPMI Host
3. IPMI Specification v2.0
4. Intel Platform Events parsing