[Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

[Gordan Bobic]

On 13/03/16 15:57, Michael Howard wrote:
> On 13/03/2016 14:58, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> On 13/03/16 14:20, Michael Howard wrote:
>>> On 13/03/2016 07:34, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>>> Does anyone have any input on what (if any) lm_sensors drivers can be
>>>> used? Probing tends to result in crashing the machine. Is there
>>>> something other than ipmi available?
>>> You'll probably find it's the default kernel causing the crash, it'll
>>> likely work with your new kernel, it does here.
>>
>> No, still causes a crash:
>> Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no):
>> Probing for Super-I/O at 0x2e/0x2f
>> Trying family `National Semiconductor/ITE'...
>> Message from syslogd at orcone at Mar 13 14:34:18 ...
>>  kernel:Internal error: : 96000010 [#1] SMP
>>
>> Some systems (mainly servers) implement IPMI, a set of common interfaces
>> through which system health data may be retrieved, amongst other things.
>> We first try to get the information from SMBIOS. If we don't find it
>> there, we have to read from arbitrary I/O ports to probe for such
>> interfaces. This is normally safe. Do you want to scan for IPMI
>> interfaces? (YES/no):
>> # DMI data unavailable, please consider installing dmidecode 2.7
>> # or later for better results.
>> Probing for `IPMI BMC KCS' at 0xca0...
>> Message from syslogd at orcone at Mar 13 14:51:42 ...
>>  kernel:Internal error: : 96000010 [#1] SMP
>>
>> So it seems the sensors aren't there, and proving the various I/O
>> ranges causes a crash.
>>
>> Still it would be nice to get "ipmitool sensor" working locally.
>> # ipmitool sensor
>> Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0:
>> No such file or directory
>> Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0:
>> No such file or directory
>> 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
>> Unable to open SDR for reading
>>
>> Is there a driver that I missed?
> This may be a compatibility issue with ipmitools package, the protocol
> is clearly compatible though. I guess you can't load the ipmi_si module?
> I created /dev/ipmi0 manually but it made no difference to the error
> displayed.


# modprobe ipmi_si
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'ipmi_si': No such device

So I'm wondering if a different driver is needed. Or a patch for this one.

Gordan