[Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

Mon Mar 14 11:48:25 UTC 2016
Michael Howard <mike at dewberryfields.co.uk>

On 13/03/2016 16:10, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> 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.
Having gone into the scant manual and the Ubuntu image (along with some 
Googling) it seems the board requires an SSIF driver (|ipmi_smb?) which 
is not in mainline since 2.6 days.
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-- 
Mike Howard

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