FW: IPMI kernel module errors on 6.x

[Raymond T. Sundland]

Hi John,

I don't see any of the additional messages that should be output by 
KCS_DEBUG.  I see the code (ifdef's) everywhere, but I don't actually 
see the output.  is this something that should be in dmesg or 
elsewhere?  I even removed the ifdef's to see if the output would be 
displayed in the dmesg without the check, and I see nothing.  I also 
tried loading the module with kldload -v.



John Baldwin wrote:
> 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!).
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>
>