Re: ipmi(4)/isa woes

From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:00:55 -0700
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I've got a machine where ipmi(4) seem to be unable to fully attach.
>> 10-current kernel complains the following way:
>>
>> ipmi0: <IPMI System Interface> at iomem 0-0x1 on isa0
>> ipmi0: KCS mode found at mem 0x0 alignment 0x1 on isa
>> ipmi0: couldn't configure I/O resource
>> device_attach: ipmi0 attach returned 6
>>
> Actually, I can bypass this issue by enabling acpi(4):
>
> ipmi0: <IPMI System Interface> port 0xca2,0xca3 on acpi0
> ipmi0: KCS mode found at io 0xca2 on acpi
> ipmi1: <IPMI System Interface> on isa0
> device_attach: ipmi1 attach returned 16
> pmtimer0 on isa0
> ipmi1: <IPMI System Interface> on isa0
> device_attach: ipmi1 attach returned 16
>
> However, the driver fails right after with:
>
> ipmi0: Timed out waiting for GET_DEVICE_ID
>
> and thus never complete its startup... :(
>
>  - Arnaud
>
>> Now, 6 is ENXIO, which match the following resource allocation failure:
>>
>>  if (info.offset == 1) {
>>          sc->ipmi_io_rid = 0;
>>          sc->ipmi_io_res[0] = bus_alloc_resource(dev, type,
>>              &sc->ipmi_io_rid, info.address, info.address + count - 1,
>>              count, RF_ACTIVE);
>>          if (sc->ipmi_io_res[0] == NULL) {
>>                  device_printf(dev, "couldn't configure I/O resource\n");
>>                  return (ENXIO);
>>          }
>>  }
>>
>> Has anyone encountered this issue ?

You might need to define a hint to use the KCS interface via
device.hints. I don't remember the incantation exactly, but I think it
was required for some Dells. ipmi(4) should have more info.

Failing that, a BMC upgrade/downgrade might be required (some vendors
don't test out BMC firmware upgrades really well, esp. in FreeBSD).

HTH,
-Garrett
Received on Tue Oct 11 2011 - 21:00:56 UTC

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