Re: [Freeipmi-users] FreeIPMI 0.1.3 on IBM x336

[Albert Chu]

Hi Avindra,

I'll forward you can e-mail with the current code in our 0.2.0 branch. 
It has a lot of fixes.

Al

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Albert Chu
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----- Original Message -----
From: Avnindra Singh <address@hidden>
Date: Friday, March 4, 2005 1:15 am
Subject: [Freeipmi-users] FreeIPMI 0.1.3  on IBM x336

> Hi,
> I'm currently trying to make FreeIMPI work on IBM x series 346 
> which 
> claims IMPI compatibiltiy.
> 1. Compiled and installed freeipmi.
> 2. Found sms base address using dmidecode utility.
> which is returned as:
> ........
> .........
> Handle 0x0035
>       DMI type 38, 18 bytes.
>       IPMI Device Information
>               Interface Type: KCS (Keyboard Control Style)
>               Specification Version: 1.5
>               I2C Slave Address: 0x10
>               NV Storage Device: Not Present
>               *Base Address: 0x0000000000000CA8 (I/O)*
>               Register Spacing: 32-bit Boundaries
> using this base address modified the fish.scm in 
> /usr/local/etc/fish/fish.scm
> bash-2.04# cat /usr/local/etc/fish/fish.scm
> ;; fish.scm: default fish configuration scm
> 
> ;; Customize Fish:
> (fi-set-prompt! "myprompt# ")
> 
> ;; Set driver SMS IO Base port
> (fi-set-sms-io-base! #x0CA8)
> 
> 3. Ran bmc-info
> It hangs without producing any results.
> 
> Invoked fish
> #/usr/local/sbin/fish
> bash-2.04# /usr/local/sbin/fish
> FreeIPMI Shell [fish-0.1.3]
> Copyright (C) 2003-2004 FreeIPMI Core Team
> This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the 
> terms of
> the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no 
> warranty.myprompt#
> At the fish prompt called, which gives bmc-info.
> # eval (fi-kcs-get-dev-id-display)
> At this point fish hangs.
> 
> Enabled debug and ran fish under gdb.
> Put breakpoint at ipmi_kcs_wait_for_ibf_clear
> It just gets stuck in while loop in this function, sms_io_base 
> variable, 
> which is set initially 0xca8 somehow gets changed to 0xbfbf under 
> this 
> function.
> 
> I wonder how sms_io_base gets changed to some other value?
> Can somebody tell me what else can I do to further debug? I'll 
> promptly 
> provide any other info needed.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Avnindra
> 
> 
> 
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