ipmi(4)/isa woes

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday, October 11, 2011 6:53:11 pm Arnaud Lacombe 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

Resource 0 is not right and will not work.  In this case your BIOS has a buggy 
SMBIOS / DMI table entry for IPMI.

> 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

You can ignore the ipmi1 messages.

> However, the driver fails right after with:
> 
> ipmi0: Timed out waiting for GET_DEVICE_ID

Are you sure you have working IPMI?  The timeouts and the busted DMI table
is consistent with a machine where IPMI is available via an optional
daughterboard, but the daughterboard isn't installed.

-- 
John Baldwin