Re: [Freeipmi-users] Freeipmi 0.4.3 Problem reading Intel mBMC onSE7320SP2

[Schäfer Raumgestaltung]

Hi Al,

KCS-Driver won't work
the mBMC PC87431M needs SSIF.......


i hope anyone would provide me some hints how to Debug and where to start...

Uli
----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Chu" <address@hidden>
To: "Schäfer Raumgestaltung" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-users] Freeipmi 0.4.3 Problem reading Intel mBMC
onSE7320SP2


> Hi Ulrich,
>
> I've personally never used/developed on the SSIF driver.  I've CCed a
> few folks that might have a better idea on those details.
>
> Have you tried the KCS driver?
>
> Al
>
> On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 07:43 +0200, Schäfer Raumgestaltung wrote:
> > Big trouble in little China....
> >
> > Board: Intel SE7320Sp2
> >            mBMC PC87431M
> >
> > Distro: Opensuse 10.2 (Kernel 2.6.18)
> >            Arch: x86_64
> >
> >
> > Done so far:
> >
> > built Freeipmi 0.4.3 RPM from Sources (thanks to Opensuse Buildservice)
> >
> > Trying to read Sensor-Values like....
> >
> > >ipmi-sensors -D ssif --driver-device /dev/i2c-0  --driver-address 0x42
> >
> > Fetching SDR repository Information ...done
> > FAILED: Retrieval of SDR record 0x0ord ID 0)
> >
> > SDR Cache creation failed: internal_error
> > ..... or somtimes (until flushing Cache with -f)
> > SDR Cache creation failed: ipmi_communication_error
> >
> >
> > any hints what's going wrong ??
> >
> >
> > attached: some "Diagnostic"
> >
> > >lsmod |grep i2c
> >
> > i2c_dev                28168  0
> > i2c_i801               25364  0
> > i2c_core               41472  2 i2c_dev,i2c_i801
> >
> >
============================================================================
===========================
> >
> > >i2cdetect -l 0
> >
> > i2c-0   smbus           SMBus I801 adapter at 0400              Non-I2C
SMBus adapter
> >
> >
============================================================================
===========================
> > >ipmi-locate
> >
> >
> > Probing KCS device using DMIDECODE... FAILED
> >
> > Probing SMIC device using DMIDECODE... FAILED
> >
> > Probing BT device using DMIDECODE... FAILED
> >
> > Probing SSIF device using DMIDECODE... done
> > IPMI Version: 1.5
> > IPMI locate driver: DMIDECODE
> > IPMI interface: SSIF
> > BMC driver device: /dev/i2c-0
> > BMC SMBUS slave address: 42
> > Register space: 1
> >
> > Probing KCS device using SMBIOS... FAILED
> >
> > Probing SMIC device using SMBIOS... FAILED
> >
> > Probing BT device using SMBIOS... FAILED
> >
> > Probing SSIF device using SMBIOS... done
> > IPMI Version: 1.5
> > IPMI locate driver: SMBIOS
> > IPMI interface: SSIF
> > BMC driver device: /dev/i2c-0
> > BMC SMBUS slave address: 84
> > Register space: 1
> >
> > Probing KCS device using ACPI... FAILED
> >
> > Probing SMIC device using ACPI... FAILED
> >
> > Probing BT device using ACPI... FAILED
> >
> > Probing SSIF device using ACPI... FAILED
> >
> > Probing KCS device using PCI... FAILED
> >
> > Probing SMIC device using PCI... FAILED
> >
> > Probing BT device using PCI... FAILED
> >
> > Probing SSIF device using PCI... FAILED
> >
> > KCS device default values:
> > IPMI Version: 1.5
> > IPMI locate driver: DEFAULT
> > IPMI interface: KCS
> > BMC driver device:
> > BMC I/O base address: CA2
> > Register space: 1
> >
> > SMIC device default values:
> > IPMI Version: 1.5
> > IPMI locate driver: DEFAULT
> > IPMI interface: SMIC
> > BMC driver device:
> > BMC I/O base address: CA9
> > Register space: 1
> >
> > BT device default values:
> >
> > SSIF device default values:
> > IPMI Version: 1.5
> > IPMI locate driver: DEFAULT
> > IPMI interface: SSIF
> > BMC driver device: /dev/i2c-0
> > BMC SMBUS slave address: 42
> > Register space: 1
> >
> >
============================================================================
===========================
> >
> > >ipmi-raw -D ssif --driver-device /dev/i2c-0 0 6 1
> >
> > rcvd: 01 00 20 81 02 40 51 9F 22 03 00 11 43
> >
> >
============================================================================
===========================
> >
> >
> >
> > >bmc-info  -D ssif --driver-device /dev/i2c-0  --driver-address 0x42
> >
> > Device ID:         20
> > Device Revision:   1
> >                    [SDR Support]
> > Firmware Revision: 2.64
> >                    [Device Available (normal operation)]
> > IPMI Version:      1.5
> > Additional Device Support:
> >                    [Sensor Device]
> >                    [SDR Repository Device]
> >                    [SEL Device]
> >  [FRU Inventory Device]
> >                    [IPMB Event Receiver]
> >                    [Chassis Device]
> > Manufacturer ID:   322h
> > Product ID:        4311h
> > Aux Firmware Revision Info: 0h
> > Channel Information:
> >        Channel No: 1
> >       Medium Type: 802.3 LAN
> >     Protocol Type: IPMB-1.0
> >        Channel No: 2
> >       Medium Type: System Interface (KCS, SMIC, or BT)
> >     Protocol Type: IPMI-SMBus
> >
============================================================================
===========================
> >
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> > Ulrich Schäfer
> >
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