FW: IPMI kernel module errors on 6.x

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Nov 14 11:46:21 PST 2006


On Monday 13 November 2006 21:50, Raymond T. Sundland wrote:
> This is the output with KCS_DEBUG enabled:
> 
>     ipmi0: <IPMI System Interface> on isa0
>     ipmi0: KCS mode found at mem 0xca2 alignment 0x4 on isa
>     ipmi0: KCS: initial state: 00
>     ipmi0: KCS: Failed to start write
>     ipmi0: KCS Error retry exhausted
>     ipmi0: KCS: Failed to start write
>     ipmi0: KCS Error retry exhausted
>     ipmi0: KCS: Failed to start write
>     ipmi0: KCS Error retry exhausted
>     ipmi0: Timed out waiting for GET_DEVICE_ID

Hmmm.  It appears to not be working at all.  You can add more printf's in 
kcs_start_write() and kcs_error() to see exactly which conditions are 
failing.  If the status byte was just always stuck as 0x00 kcs_error() should 
succeed, so it is doing something.

> John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Monday 13 November 2006 13:48, Raymond Sundland wrote:
> >   
> >> I sent this to -questions earlier, but thought I would get a more 
complete
> >> response from either -hackers or -amd64.
> >>     
> >
> > Try enabling KCS_DEBUG in sys/dev/ipmi/ipmi_kcs.c and save the output to a 
> > file (it will be a lot!).
> >
> >   
> 

-- 
John Baldwin


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