diff --git a/tools/libs/ipmitoolintf.h b/tools/libs/ipmitoolintf.h
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+#pragma once
+
+/* The Aspeed AST2400 & AST2500 have 64 bytes of SRAM as the FIFO for each
+ * direction, of which 2 bytes are reserved for len and for seq by upper layer
+ * ipmi driver.
+ */
+#define MAX_PIPELINE_BANDWIDTH 62
+#define IPMI_BUF_SIZE 1024
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+struct IpmiResponse
+{
+    uint8_t ccode;
+    uint8_t data[IPMI_BUF_SIZE];
+    int dataLen;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Call into the ipmitool source to send the IPMI packet.
+ *
+ * @param[in] bytes - the IPMI packet contents.
+ * @param[in] length - the number of bytes.
+ * @param[in,out] resp - a pointer to write the response.
+ * @return 0 on success.
+ */
+int ipmiSendCommand(const uint8_t* bytes, int length,
+                    struct IpmiResponse* resp);