Problem with HP DL380
Wilkinson, Alex
alex.wilkinson at dsto.defence.gov.au
Sat Nov 20 16:42:58 PST 2004
what is meant by 'C3 state' ?
- aW
0n Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 10:46:25AM +0100, Lukas Ertl wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>
> >: Setting hw.pci.do_powerstate=0 in /boot/loader.conf fixes this problem.
> >
> >Dang. I missed the earlier part of this thread. You shouldn't need
> >to do this if I coded things up right. But, alas, you do. Can you
> >send me the details?
>
> No, I think you did everything right. If I understand it correctly, then
> hw.pci.do_powerstate puts a device into C3 state if no driver attaches.
> That's just what happens here. That iLO service processor of the DL380s
> shows up as normal PCI device, but exports the console to the network even
> without specific driver (as there is none for FreeBSD), so that it works
> independent of the OS.
>
> So, since there is no driver, the device gets powered down as soon as the
> kernel initializes its ACPI parts, and then the iLO console stops working.
>
> cheers,
> le
>
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