[Freeipmi-devel] Re: IPMI on the Tiger4

[Anand Babu]

OpenIPMI driver is broken for IA64.

I already got our FreeIPMI user-space inband KCS driver working on
IA-64. I'm making a temporary release for sensors, bmc-info (firmware
version, features ...), bmc-config utilities.

Let me know what functionalities you are specifically looking for.

To test the kcs driver, please download this tar ball from
ftp://ftp.cdclinux.com/home/ftp/pub/ipmi/libfreeipmi-0.0.0-ia64.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.cdclinux.com/home/ftp/pub/ipmi/freeipmi-utils.tgz

freeipmi-utils package contains bmc-info tool.
Sample Output:
+----------------------------------------------------------+
| debian-ia64:~/ab/freeipmi-utils# bmc-info                |
| Device ID:         20                                    |
| Device Revision:   1                                     |
|                    [SDR Support]                         |
| Firmware Revision: 0.20                                  |
|                    [Device Available (normal operation)] |
| IPMI Version:      1.5                                   |
| Additional Device Support:                               |
|                    [Sensor Device]                       |
|                    [SDR Repository Device]               |
|                    [SEL Device]                          |
|                    [FRU Inventory Device]                |
|                    [IPMB Event Receiver]                 |
|                    [Chassis Device]                      |
| Manufacturer ID:   157h                                  |
| Product ID:        100h                                  |
| Aux Firmware Revision Info: 20011300h                    |
+----------------------------------------------------------+


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| Hi,     Your name was given to me as a pointer in enabling IPMI in the
| kernel for the ia64 Tiger4 machines.  I have been playing around with
| it, but for the life of me, the kernel on boot up claims it can't find
| the KCS at port 0xCA2.  It also tries for an interface at 0xCA9.  I
| know the BMC is at 0x20 and have been able to send commands with
| OpenIPMI's "ipmicmd" to it directly, however, in trying to go through
| the software stack, it seems to load the following when bringing up a
| new kernel:
|
|  ipmi message handler version v25 ipmi device interface version v25
|  IPMI System Interface driver version v25, KCS version v25, SMIC
|  version v25 ipmi_smi: Trying state machine at I/O address 0xca2
|  ipmi_smi: Trying state machine at I/O address 0xca9 ipmi_smi: Unable
|  to find any SMI interfaces ipmi socket interface version v25
|
| Is there something else I need to enable in the kernel config file?  I
| have enabled CONFIG_I2C stuff as well as just about all of the ACPI
| and HOTPLUG items, but nothing really seems to matter.  Any ideas?
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