NVRAM and related

nvram.md

Installing ndctl, pmdk and ipmctl:

Keep the installation directories around for both of these libs, as the only way to uninstall them is by going into the original install dirs, and then make uninstall.

Required for both ndctl and pmdk:

$ apt install pkg-config
$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig:/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}

To install ndctl v68 at https://github.com/pmem/ndctl/releases/tag/v72:

$ apt install asciidoctor libkmod-dev libudev-dev uuid uuid-dev libjson-c-dev libkeyutils-dev libiniparser-dev
$ sudo cp /usr/include/iniparser/* /usr/include/  # >.<
$ wget https://github.com/pmem/ndctl/archive/v72.zip
$ unzip v72.zip && mv ndctl-72/ ndctl-v72/ && cd ndctl-v72/
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure CFLAGS='-g -O2' --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib
$ make -j8 -l4
$ make -j8 -l4 check
$ sudo make install

To install pmdk v1.9 at https://github.com/pmem/pmdk/releases/tag/1.9

$ apt install fabric pandoc
$ wget https://github.com/pmem/pmdk/archive/1.9.zip
$ unzip 1.9.zip && mv pmdk-1.9 pmdk-v1.9 && cd pmdk-v1.9
$ make -j8 -l4
$ make -j8 -l4 check
$ sudo make install

To install ipmctl latest ipmctl v02 release:

$ wget https://github.com/intel/ipmctl/archive/refs/tags/v02.00.00.3885.zip
$ unzip v02.00.00.3885.zip && mv ipmctl-02.00.00.3885 ipmctl-v02 && cd ipmctl-v02
$ mkdir build && cd build && cmake -DRELEASE=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/ ..
$ make -j all
$ sudo make install