FreeBSD Port: ipmi-kmod-20060418_1

[Nick Barkas]

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J. Martin Petersen wrote:
> Michael Graziano wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 9, 2006, at 3:51 AM, J. Martin Petersen wrote:
>>
>>> Michael Graziano wrote:
>>>
>>>> By any chance have you had success with this module on some of the
>>>> newer Dell (X950) hardware?
>>>
>>> FreeBSD IPMI on 6.1 no longer works on our Dell SC 1425 (which is a
>>> somewhat older model) after the latest Flash BIOS upgrade (which we
>>> needed for other reasons), loading the modules yields
>>>
>>> ipmi0: <System Management BIOS> at iomem
>>> 0xfa830-0xfa84e,0xfa850-0xfb356 on isa0
>>> ipmi0: SMBIOS Version: 2.03, revision: 2.03
>>> ipmi0: KCS mode found at io 0xca8 alignment 0x4 on isa
>>> ipmi0: couldn't configure smbios io res
>>> sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
>>> sio1: port may not be enabled
>>>
>>> Are you seeing something similar (or something at all), when you load
>>> the module?
>>
>> Same results exactly:
>>
>> ipmi0: <System Management BIOS> at iomem
>> 0xfd040-0xfd05e,0xcffbc000-0xcffbcc3a on isa0
>> ipmi0: SMBIOS Version: 2.04, revision: 2.04
>> ipmi0: KCS mode found at io 0xca8 alignment 0x4 on isa
>> ipmi0: couldn't configure smbios io res
>>
>> I'd guess Dell probably "fixed" something in the BIOS.
>> Do you also have the random system hangs when unloading the module?
> 
> Yes, our SC1425 (which aren't SMP) hangs, and our PowerEdge 1800 (which
> is SMP) does a kernel panic.

I unfortunately do not have any Dell hardware to test with. I've only
used ipmi-kmod with Supermicro IPMI modules and motherboards. It looks
like there have not been any significant changes to the IMPI code in
- -CURRENT recently that might fix this, either. I do see a note in the
"Fixes and Enhancements" section on the latest BIOS download page from
Dell for the SC1425 that says "Added Native IPMI support," so they
definitely did something.

Nick
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