Re: [BISECTED] ipmi_si not loading since 2.6.39

[Nikola Ciprich <nikola.ciprich@linuxbox.cz>]

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Hi Corey,

I have this problem with 3.4-rc4 as well and it already contains
b1608d69cb804e414d0887140ba08a9398e4e638, so this doesn't fix this problem..

BR

nik


On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 08:41:32AM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
> Looks like you might need change b1608d69cb804e414d0887140ba08a9398e4e638
>
> -corey
>
> On 04/23/2012 03:09 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On 04/21/2012 02:20 AM, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> here's further information Rob and Corey requested:
>>>
>>> on working system:
>>>
>>> [root@vbox4 ~]# cat /proc/ipmi/0/params
>>> kcs,i/o,0xca2,rsp=1,rsi=1,rsh=0,irq=0,ipmb=0
>>>
>>> dmesg snippet:
>>>
>>> [   41.759319] ipmi message handler version 39.2
>>> [   41.760690] ipmi device interface
>>> [   42.765334] IPMI System Interface driver.
>>> [   42.765336] ipmi_si: probing via hardcoded address
>>> [   42.765337] ipmi_si: Adding hardcoded-specified kcs state machine
>>> [   42.765340] ipmi_si: Trying hardcoded-specified kcs state machine at i/o address 0xca8, slave address 0x0, irq 0
>>> [   42.765344] ipmi_si: Interface detection failed
>>> [   42.770823] ipmi_si: probing via SMBIOS
>>> [   42.770834] ipmi_si: SMBIOS: io 0xca2 regsize 1 spacing 1 irq 0
>>> [   42.770836] ipmi_si: Adding SMBIOS-specified kcs state machine
>>> [   42.770838] ipmi_si: probing via SPMI
>>> [   42.770840] ipmi_si: SPMI: io 0xe4 regsize 1 spacing 1 irq 0
>>> [   42.770841] ipmi_si: Adding SPMI-specified kcs state machine
>>> [   42.770843] ipmi_si: Trying SMBIOS-specified kcs state machine at i/o address 0xca2, slave address 0x0, irq 0
>>> [   42.798137] ipmi_si ipmi_si.0: Error clearing flags: cc
>>> [   42.801011] ipmi_si ipmi_si.0: Found new BMC (man_id: 0x002a7c, prod_id: 0x0624, dev_id: 0x20)
>>> [   42.801068] ipmi_si ipmi_si.0: IPMI kcs interface initialized
>>>
>>>
>>> dmidecode:
>>>
>>> IPMI Device Information
>>>          Interface Type: KCS (Keyboard Control Style)
>>>          Specification Version: 2.0
>>>          I2C Slave Address: 0x00
>>>          NV Storage Device: Not Present
>>>          Base Address: 0x0000000000000CA2 (I/O)
>>>          Register Spacing: Successive Byte Boundaries
>>>
>>> Base Board Information
>>>          Manufacturer: Supermicro
>>>          Product Name: X9SCL/X9SCM
>>>
>>> (but we're experiencing this on various supermicro bords, ie X8DTL)
>>>
>>> Tried setting parameters by hand didn't help:
>>>
>>> modprobe ipmi_si type=kcs addrs=0xca8 regspacings=1 regsizes=1 regshifts=0 irqs=0 slave_addrs=0x0
>>>
>>> (not sure whether I got them correct though, and values mostly seem to me to be defaults anyways..)
>>>
>> It is working for me on a SuperMicro system with ubuntu oneiric (3.0
>> based).
>>
>> [597160.259728] ipmi_si: probing via SMBIOS
>> [597160.259730] ipmi_si: SMBIOS: io 0xca2 regsize 1 spacing 1 irq 0
>> [597160.259731] ipmi_si: Adding SMBIOS-specified kcs state machine
>> [597160.259734] ipmi_si: probing via SPMI
>> [597160.259735] ipmi_si: SPMI: io 0xe4 regsize 1 spacing 1 irq 0
>> [597160.259737] ipmi_si: Adding SPMI-specified kcs state machine
>> [597160.259739] ipmi_si: Trying SMBIOS-specified kcs state machine at
>> i/o address 0xca2, slave address 0x0, irq 0
>> [597160.378757] ipmi_si: Invalid return from get global enables command,
>> cannot enable the event buffer.
>> [597160.382032] ipmi_si ipmi_si.0: Found new BMC (man_id: 0x00b980,
>> prod_id: 0x0624, dev_id: 0x20)
>> [597160.382040] ipmi_si ipmi_si.0: IPMI kcs interface initialized
>> [597179.973960] ipmi device interface
>> localadm@sandy1:~$ ipmitool bmc info
>> Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No
>> such file or directory
>> Get Device ID command failed
>> localadm@sandy1:~$ sudo ipmitool bmc info
>> Device ID                 : 32
>> Device Revision           : 1
>> Firmware Revision         : 1.1
>> IPMI Version              : 2.0
>> Manufacturer ID           : 47488
>> Manufacturer Name         : Unknown (0xB980)
>> Product ID                : 1572 (0x0624)
>> Product Name              : Unknown (0x624)
>> Device Available          : yes
>> Provides Device SDRs      : no
>> Additional Device Support :
>>      Sensor Device
>>      SDR Repository Device
>>      SEL Device
>>      FRU Inventory Device
>>      IPMB Event Receiver
>>      IPMB Event Generator
>>      Chassis Device
>> Aux Firmware Rev Info     :
>>      0x06
>>      0x00
>>      0x00
>>      0x00
>> localadm@sandy1:~$ uname -a
>> Linux sandy1 3.0.0-16-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 27 17:44:39 UTC
>> 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>> nik
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:38:33AM +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I was trying to find out why IPMI stopped working on new kernels. Since 2.6.39
>>>> module loading ends with following message:
>>>>
>>>>   ipmi_si: Interface detection failed
>>>>
>>>> Then ipmitool is unable to control IPMI device.
>>>>
>>>> Works for 2.6.38, doesn't work for 2.6.39, 3.0.28, 3.4-rc1.
>>>>
>>>> I got this bisected to following commit:
>>>>
>>>> commit a1e9c9dd3383e6a1a762464ad604b1081774dbda
>>>> Author: Rob Herring<rob.herring@calxeda.com>
>>>> Date:   Wed Feb 23 15:37:59 2011 -0600
>>>>
>>>>      ipmi: convert OF driver to platform driver
>>>>
>>>>      of_bus is deprecated in favor of the plain platform bus. This patch
>>>>      merges the ipmi OF driver with the existing platform driver.
>>>>
>>>>      CONFIG_PPC_OF occurrances are removed or replaced with CONFIG_OF.
>>>>
>>>>      Compile tested with and without CONFIG_OF. Tested OF probe and
>>>>      default probe cases.
>>>>
>>>>      Signed-off-by: Rob Herring<rob.herring@calxeda.com>
>>>>      Signed-off-by: Grant Likely<grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
>>>>
>>>> I wonder whether this is a bug, or I'm doing something wrong?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>
>>>> with best regards
>>>>
>>>> nik
>>>>
>>>>
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