Re: [Freeipmi-users] It is not possible to use `--fru-file` option in the `ipmi-fru` utility on non-IPMI system

[Konstantin Aladyshev]

Thanks Al!

It helped. With this change the `ipmi-fru` utility can work on non-IPMI systems.

By the way, I've tried to run `ipmi-fru` on some FRU images from the
https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/fru_tools/tree/master/masterfiles
And not all things were parsed successfully. I don't know, either
these binaries have some non-standard records or  `ipmi-fru` lacks
some necessary features.
But just in case here are some logs:

aladyshev@PC10319:~/freeipmi_fru/ipmi-fru$ ./ipmi-fru --fru-file
~/fru_tools/masterfiles/AD-FMCADC2-EBZ-FRU.bin
FRU Inventory From File:
/home/aladyshev/fru_tools/masterfiles/AD-FMCADC2-EBZ-FRU.bin

  FRU Board Manufacturing Date/Time: 10/09/14 - 16:23:00
  FRU Board Manufacturer: Analog Devices
  FRU Board Product Name: AD9625 FMC Sync board
  FRU Board Serial Number: 00008
  FRU Board Part Number: AD-FMCADC2-EBZ
  FRU Board Custom Info: 00h 44h
  FRU Board Custom Info: 01h 30h 33h 36h 30h 30h 37h
  FRU Board Custom Info: 02h 30h
  FRU Board Custom Info: 03h 59h

fru/ipmi-fru-data.c: 1246: ipmi_fru_multirecord_dc_load: error 'field
not found' (7)
ipmi_fru_multirecord_dc_load: invalid parameters
api/ipmi-api.c: 2231: ipmi_ctx_close: error 'device null' (1)
api/ipmi-api.c: 2276: ipmi_ctx_destroy: error 'device null' (1)


aladyshev@PC10319:~/freeipmi_fru/ipmi-fru$ ./ipmi-fru --fru-file
~/fru_tools/masterfiles/ADRV9371-W.bin
FRU Inventory From File: /home/aladyshev/fru_tools/masterfiles/ADRV9371-W.bin

  FRU Board Manufacturing Date/Time: 11/27/12 - 11:39:00
  FRU Board Manufacturer: Analog Devices
  FRU Board Product Name: Wide Tuning Range AD9371 Eval Brd
  FRU Board Serial Number: 0000
  FRU Board Part Number: ADRV9371-W/PCBZ
  FRU Board Custom Info: 00h 41h
  FRU Board Custom Info: 01h 30h 38h 2Dh 30h 34h 32h 35h 39h 31h
  FRU Board Custom Info: 02h 41h
  FRU Board Custom Info: 03h 59h

  FRU DC Output Output Number: 3
  FRU DC Output Output on Standy: No
  FRU DC Output Nominal Voltage: 2500 mV
  FRU DC Output Maximum Negative Voltage Deviation: 0 mV
  FRU DC Output Maximum Positive Voltage Deviation: 0 mV
  FRU DC Output Ripple and Noise pk-pk: 50 mV
  FRU DC Output Minimum Current Draw: 0 mA
  FRU DC Output Maximum Current Draw: 0 mA

  FRU DC Output Output Number: 4
  FRU DC Output Output on Standy: No
  FRU DC Output Nominal Voltage: 0 mV
  FRU DC Output Maximum Negative Voltage Deviation: 0 mV
  FRU DC Output Maximum Positive Voltage Deviation: 0 mV
  FRU DC Output Ripple and Noise pk-pk: 0 mV
  FRU DC Output Minimum Current Draw: 0 mA
  FRU DC Output Maximum Current Draw: 0 mA

  FRU DC Output Output Number: 5
  FRU DC Output Output on Standy: No
  FRU DC Output Nominal Voltage: 0 mV
  FRU DC Output Maximum Negative Voltage Deviation: 0 mV
  FRU DC Output Maximum Positive Voltage Deviation: 0 mV
  FRU DC Output Ripple and Noise pk-pk: 0 mV
  FRU DC Output Minimum Current Draw: 0 mA
  FRU DC Output Maximum Current Draw: 0 mA

fru/ipmi-fru-data.c: 1246: ipmi_fru_multirecord_dc_load: error 'field
not found' (7)
ipmi_fru_multirecord_dc_load: invalid parameters
api/ipmi-api.c: 2231: ipmi_ctx_close: error 'device null' (1)
api/ipmi-api.c: 2276: ipmi_ctx_destroy: error 'device null' (1)


Best regards,
Konstantin Aladyshev


On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 10:23 PM Al Chu <chu11@llnl.gov> wrote:
>
> Hi Konstantin,
>
> I have a fix at this branch on github if you could give it a shot:
>
> https://github.com/chu11/freeipmi-mirror/tree/ipmi_fru_file_only
>
> after downloading, to build:
>
> ./autogen.sh
> ./configure --enable-debug --enable-trace
> make
> ipmi-fru/ipmi-fru --fru-file=...
>
> There will be extra debugging output when running this.  If things look
> like its working, you can remove the "--enable-debug, --enable-trace"
> in the above to remove the debugging.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Al
>
>
> On Sat, 2021-02-06 at 09:32 -0800, Al Chu via Freeipmi-users wrote:
> > Hi Konstantin,
> >
> > Yeah, this seems to be a bug. I suppose it was always assumed people
> > were on IPMI systems.  I believe this was initially added b/c some
> > IPMI
> > developers wanted to debug/test their binaries.
> >
> > I'll add this as a TODO for myself and get back to you with a test
> > branch you can try.
> >
> > Al
> >
> > On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 12:59 +0300, Konstantin Aladyshev wrote:
> > > Is it possible to use `ipmi-fru` utility to parse local binary FRU
> > > file?
> > > I want to do it from a separate host that doesn't have any IPMI
> > > devices.
> > > I thought that `--fru-file` option was designed specifically for
> > > this
> > > case, but I can't get it working:
> > >
> > > ~/freeipmi-1.6.6/ipmi-fru$ sudo ./ipmi-fru -v
> > > --fru-file=./AD-FMCADC2-EBZ-FRU.bin
> > > could not find inband device
> > >
> > > So there seems to be a bug that assumes you are always running on
> > > an
> > > IPMI system.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Konstantin Aladyshev
> > >
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