IBM OpenPower 720 ipr driver woes

[Brian King]

On 06/05/2013 04:14 PM, Robert Knight wrote:
> On 6/3/2013 11:52 PM, Gavin Shan wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 01:16:52PM +1000, Tony Breeds wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 09:40:52PM -0400, Robert Knight wrote:
>>>> On 6/3/2013 8:01 PM, Tony Breeds wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 05:20:12PM -0400, Robert Knight wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Device tree struct  0x0000000004820000 -> 0x0000000004840000
>>>>>>> Calling quiesce...
>>>>>>> returning from prom_init
>>>>>>> [    1.376359] ehci-pci 0000:c8:01.2: can't setup
>>>>> Can you try adding "debug" to the kernel commandline.  We're missing a
>>>>> great chunk of detail. If you're starting from scratch either try F18 or
>>>>> the F19 Beta (if you're brave :))
>>>>>
>>>>> Yours Tony
>>>> So, two points.  Since I have no live disks, I can't copy the dmesg
>>>> output in dracut onto a disk and just sent it to you -- the only way
>>>> that I know to get it is cut and paste from a HMC console window
>>>> into a vi buffer.
>>> Okay, when I've been in that situation, I run "script" locally and then
>>> conenct to the HMC console.
>>>
>>> When you're done you can exit script adn then a file called typescript
>>> will exist in the directory you ran script in.
>>>
>>> It's a less overhead way of doign what you're already doing.
>>> [    0.087097] NET: Registered protocol family 16
>>>
>>>> [    0.087144] pseries_eeh_init: RTAS service <ibm,get-config-addr-info2> and <i
>>>> bm,get-config-addr-info> invalid
>>>> [    0.087155] eeh_init: Failed to call platform init function (-22)
>>> Hmm this seems pretty strange to me.  Gavin are these RTAS tokens
>>> supported on older power5 boxes?
>>>
>> Yes, Tony. "ibm,get-config-addr-info" should be supported on Power5 box.
>> Newer PowerBox (e.g. P7) should support "ibm,get-config-addr-info2"
>>
>> Please have a try on the attached patch, which is based on mainline (3.10).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gavin
>>
>>
> The system boots with that patch.  I applied it to kernel-3.8.11-100.

Does that patch resolve all your issues, or are there still issues with ipr remaining
after applying the patch?

Thanks,

Brian

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Brian King
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