[Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

Mon Mar 14 18:24:58 UTC 2016
Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com>

Hi Phong,

I stumbled across this in my SPAM folder. The message from Gmail: "Why
is this message in Spam? It has a from address in apm.com but has
failed apm.com's required tests for authentication. Learn more".
"Learn more" is linked to
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1366858?hl=en&expand=5.

(Sending to the list in case others are missing the reply).

Jeff

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Phong Vo <pvo at apm.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
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> X-Gene kernel does not support ipmitools, which relies on OpenIPMI driver
> (using /dev/ipmi).
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> Instead, communications to the BMC is via  SSIF over /dev/i2c.
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> You can either use ipmitools with the BMC LAN interface directly (out of
> band), or freeipmi (inband).
>
> I don’t have the information handy at this time – will follow up tomorrow.
>
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>
> -Phong
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> From: arm-dev-bounces at centos.org [mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Michael Howard
> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 6:48 PM
> To: arm-dev at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0
>
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> On 13/03/2016 16:10, Gordan Bobic wrote:
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> On 13/03/16 15:57, Michael Howard wrote:
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> On 13/03/2016 14:58, Gordan Bobic wrote:
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> On 13/03/16 14:20, Michael Howard wrote:
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> On 13/03/2016 07:34, Gordan Bobic wrote:
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> 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.