IBM OpenPower 720 ipr driver woes

[Robert Knight]

On 6/5/2013 6:01 PM, wenxiong at linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
>
> Quoting Robert Knight <knight at princeton.edu>:
>
>> Sometime after kernel 3.3.4, Fedora 17 running on an IBM OpenPower 
>> 720 stopped being able to read the SCSI disks with an error 
>> concerning a return code -1.  In the updates since, it has not 
>> resumed working.
>>
> Can you tell me which kernel you saw this issue(I assumed that 3.3.4 
> works fine).
kernel 3.8.11-100, for example
> Also can you check your system firmware for me?
I don't know how to do that.  lsvpd?