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--></style></head><body bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hi folks,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">X-Gene kernel does not support ipmitools, which relies on OpenIPMI driver (using /dev/ipmi).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Instead, communications to the BMC is via SSIF over /dev/i2c. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">You can either use ipmitools with the BMC LAN interface directly (out of band), or freeipmi (inband). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I don’t have the information handy at this time – will follow up tomorrow.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">-Phong</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> <a href="mailto:arm-dev-bounces@centos.org">arm-dev-bounces@centos.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:arm-dev-bounces@centos.org">arm-dev-bounces@centos.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael Howard<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 14, 2016 6:48 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:arm-dev@centos.org">arm-dev@centos.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">On 13/03/2016 16:10, Gordan Bobic wrote:<br><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">On 13/03/16 15:57, Michael Howard wrote: <br><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">On 13/03/2016 14:58, Gordan Bobic wrote: <br><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">On 13/03/16 14:20, Michael Howard wrote: <br><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">On 13/03/2016 07:34, Gordan Bobic wrote: <br><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone have any input on what (if any) lm_sensors drivers can be <br>used? Probing tends to result in crashing the machine. Is there <br>something other than ipmi available? </p><p class="MsoNormal">You'll probably find it's the default kernel causing the crash, it'll <br>likely work with your new kernel, it does here. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br>No, still causes a crash: <br>Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no): <br>Probing for Super-I/O at 0x2e/0x2f <br>Trying family `National Semiconductor/ITE'... <br>Message from syslogd@orcone at Mar 13 14:34:18 ... <br> kernel:Internal error: : 96000010 [#1] SMP <br><br>Some systems (mainly servers) implement IPMI, a set of common interfaces <br>through which system health data may be retrieved, amongst other things. <br>We first try to get the information from SMBIOS. If we don't find it <br>there, we have to read from arbitrary I/O ports to probe for such <br>interfaces. This is normally safe. Do you want to scan for IPMI <br>interfaces? (YES/no): <br># DMI data unavailable, please consider installing dmidecode 2.7 <br># or later for better results. <br>Probing for `IPMI BMC KCS' at 0xca0... <br>Message from syslogd@orcone at Mar 13 14:51:42 ... <br> kernel:Internal error: : 96000010 [#1] SMP <br><br>So it seems the sensors aren't there, and proving the various I/O <br>ranges causes a crash. <br><br>Still it would be nice to get "ipmitool sensor" working locally. <br># ipmitool sensor <br>Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: <br>No such file or directory <br>Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: <br>No such file or directory <br>Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: <br>No such file or directory <br>Get Device ID command failed <br>Unable to open SDR for reading <br><br>Is there a driver that I missed? </p><p class="MsoNormal">This may be a compatibility issue with ipmitools package, the protocol <br>is clearly compatible though. I guess you can't load the ipmi_si module? <br>I created /dev/ipmi0 manually but it made no difference to the error <br>displayed. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br># modprobe ipmi_si <br>modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'ipmi_si': No such device <br><br>So I'm wondering if a different driver is needed. Or a patch for this one. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Having gone into the scant manual and the Ubuntu image (along with some Googling) it seems the board requires an SSIF driver (<code><span style="font-size:10.0pt">ipmi_smb?) which is not in mainline since 2.6 days.</span></code><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br><br></span></p><pre>-- </pre><pre>Mike Howard</pre></div></body></html>