[Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

Fri Mar 18 11:00:37 UTC 2016
Gordan Bobic <gordan at redsleeve.org>

On 2016-03-18 02:10, Phong Vo wrote:
> I am following up on this.
> 
> You need to use freeipmi for inband. Ipmitools is for out-of-band
> only.
> 
> + Update kernel to 4.2.0-0.26.el1
> 
> $ yum install i2-tools

I think this should be i2c-tools, not i2-tools.

> $ yum install freeipimi
> 
> $ insmod i2c-dev
> 
> $ i2cdetect –l
> 
> i2c-0   smbus           MAILBOX I2C                             SMBus
> adapter  << Use this one with freeipmi
> 
> i2c-1   i2c                 AST i2c bit bus
> I2C adapter

I'm going to hazard a guess that MAILBOX I2C support isn't in the
mainline 4.4.x branch. Has it been pushed upstream?

> # Get BMC info
> 
> bmc-info --no-probing --driver-type=SSIF --driver-address=0x10
> --driver-device=/dev/i2c-0 --get-device-id –debug
> 
> # Get BMC config (mainly for its IP address)
> 
> $ bmc-config --driver-type=SSIF --driver-address=0x10
> --driver-device=/dev/i2c-0 -o -S Lan_Conf