transitioning from 4.17.18 to 5.0.6

Patrick Venture venture at google.com
Thu Apr 11 03:13:06 AEST 2019


On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 9:02 AM Cédric Le Goater <clg at kaod.org> wrote:
>
> On 4/10/19 4:39 PM, Patrick Venture wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 7:17 PM Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 16:35, Patrick Venture <venture at google.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> HI, I ran into some weirdness when transitioning from 4.17.18 to 5.0.6
> >>> with the quanta-q71l board.  More specifically now my host can't talk
> >>> to the BMC via ipmi-bt.  All it returns is 0xd5.  on the BMC itself, I
> >>> can talk to ipmid file via dbus, and btbridge is running.
> >>>
> >>> Has anyone else run into weirdness?
> >>
> >> I've not seen that.
> >>
> >> My only guess is there is an issue with clocking. Can you try booting
> >> the machine with clk_ignore_unused in your kernel command line?
> >
> > I'll give it a shot, although IPMI not working is odd since the
> > LPC_CLK is enabled.  But yeah, I'll try that today and reply back,
> > thanks.

root at localhost:~# cat /proc/cmdline
console=ttyS4,115200n8 root=/dev/ram rw clk_ignore_unused

./gbmctool -command firmware -action get -field version
Get Device ID command failed: 0xd5 Command not supported in present state
E0410 10:12:01.640883  456408 real_main.cc:53] Unable to send code:
Command not supported in present state

So that didn't fix it unless I need to reboot the host as well.

>
> I don't see this issue on a palmetto, BMC running with 5.0.5.
>
> C.
>
>
> >
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I am seeing:
> >>>
> >>> [    4.645814] ipmi-bt-host 1e789140.ibt: Found bt bmc device
> >>> [    4.650341] ipmi-bt-host 1e789140.ibt: Using IRQ 32
> >>>
> >>> The dts file I'm using is basically identical to the upstream one, and
> >>> my defconfig is also nearly identical to what's in meta-aspeed for the
> >>> ast2400.
> >>>
> >>> Patrick
>


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