Overview

eCMD is the hardware access API for IBM Systems. It provides the user a consistent way to address hardware between system types and even across processor generations.

The core of eCMD is a C/C++ programing API. Built on top of that are a cmdline, python module and perl module.

Distros

eCMD will build for Linux x86, x86_64, ppc64 and ppc64le

RHEL, Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian have all been tested and makefile configs for recent releases are included.

 ---------------------     Base
 | C Programming API |     |
 ---------------------     |
           |               ↓

    ---------------
    | eCMD Plugin |
    ---------------
           |
           |
     ------------
     | Hardware |
     ------------

Building

To build eCMD you need to generate a makefile.config That is done via the config.py script in the top level To create: ~/ecmd$ ./config.py Writing /home/user/ecmd/makefile.config

If config.py isn't called, you'll see an error like this: makefile.base:45: *** makefile.config not found! Please run config.py in ~/ecmd/. Stop.

To build, then invoke make ~/ecmd$ make

The make runs through 4 steps

• creates output directories
• creates any generated source
• builds all source
• runs simple build tests

A build will take about 1-2 minutes

Install

By default, the install is done into an install dir in your repo. You can change this by setting INSTALL_PATH before calling config.py

~/ecmd$ make install

Documentation

Please see docs/README for instructions on how to generate API documentation

License

See LICENSE