[Freeipmi-devel] Re: freeipmi on freebsd 4.x

[Dmitry Frolov]

* Sharad Chandra <address@hidden> [22.11.2007 18:16]:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> On one of my system
> # dmidecode
> Handle 0x0027
>         DMI type 38, 18 bytes.
>         IPMI Device Information
>                 Interface Type: Unknown
>                 Specification Version: 0.0
>                 I2C Slave Address: 0x00
>                 NV Storage Device Address: 0
>                 Base Address: 0x0000000000000000 (Memory-mapped)
>                 Register Spacing: Successive Byte Boundaries
>                 Interrupt Polarity: Active Low
>                 Interrupt Trigger Mode: Edge

Output looks strange, Interface Type and Spec Version are not
defined. Here is an output from an Intel board:

IPMI Device Information
        Interface Type: KCS (Keyboard Control Style)
        Specification Version: 2.0
        I2C Slave Address: 0x10
        NV Storage Device: Not Present
        Base Address: 0x0000000000000CA2 (I/O)
        Register Spacing: Successive Byte Boundaries

AFAIK, Supermicro boards support IPMI with an addon cards. Is such a
card present on your system? If so, maybe firmware upgrade will help.

Just a guess...

> 
> ie i2c slave address is 0x0 but ipmi-locate is not showing this 0x0 address
> 
> su-2.04# ./ipmi-locate                [This is from i just worked on freeipmi 
> 0.5 beta]
> Probing KCS device using DMIDECODE... FAILED
> Probing SMIC device using DMIDECODE... FAILED
> Probing BT device using DMIDECODE... FAILED
> Probing SSIF device using DMIDECODE... FAILED
> Probing KCS device using SMBIOS... FAILED
> Probing SMIC device using SMBIOS... FAILED
> Probing BT device using SMBIOS... FAILED
> Probing SSIF device using SMBIOS... FAILED
> Probing KCS device using ACPI... FAILED
> Probing SMIC device using ACPI... FAILED
> Probing BT device using ACPI... FAILED
> Probing SSIF device using ACPI... FAILED
> Probing KCS device using PCI... FAILED
> Probing SMIC device using PCI... FAILED
> Probing BT device using PCI... FAILED
> Probing SSIF device using PCI... FAILED
> 
> KCS device default values:
> IPMI Version: 1.5
> IPMI locate driver: DEFAULT
> IPMI interface: KCS
> BMC driver device:
> BMC I/O base address: CA2
> Register spacing: 1
> 
> SMIC device default values:
> IPMI Version: 1.5
> IPMI locate driver: DEFAULT
> IPMI interface: SMIC
> BMC driver device:
> BMC I/O base address: CA9
> Register spacing: 1
> 
> BT device default values:
> 
> SSIF device default values:
> IPMI Version: 1.5
> IPMI locate driver: DEFAULT
> IPMI interface: SSIF
> BMC driver device: /dev/i2c-0
> BMC SMBUS slave address: 42
> Register spacing: 1
> 
> What does it mean?
> Is there something wrong with this box?
> hw.smbios.system.manufacturer: Supermicro
> hw.smbios.system.product_name: X6DH8
> 
> Whereas on Intel box ipmi-locate is showing slave address same as dmidecode 
> is 
> showing. If you need any 4.x testing, I can provide you the tool output.
> 
> Thanks
> Sharad Chandra
> --
> * Sharad Chandra <address@hidden> [21.11.2007 12:24]:
> > Hi,
> >
> >     A quick question,
> > What is the latest freeipmi package that i can install on freebsd 4.x,
> > I had freeipmi -0.2 beta version on one of my system but ipmi-locate
> > doesn't show probing devices using dmidecode any where.
> 
> The latest version of FreeIPMI, that I was able to run on 4.x was 0.2.3.
> You can get port tarball here:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/sysutils/freeipmi/freeipmi.tar.gz
> ?only_with_tag=RELEASE_6_2_0;tarball=1
> 
> Does something about IPMI show up when You run dmidecode utility
> (ports/sysutils/dmidecode)? Try "dmidecode | grep -i -A10 ipmi" as root.
> 
> > I tried to compile freeipmi-0.5 beta0 with its dependency taken from
> > RELEASE_4_EOL branch, but at last i found,
> 
> E-mail, forwarded by Al, says it all. To summarize: to run fresh
> FreeIPMI on FBSD 4.x one would need to workaround absence of stdint.h
> and of getpw*_r() functions at least. Unfortunately, I don't even have
> 4.x system at hand, so can't try.