transitioning from 4.17.18 to 5.0.6

[Patrick Venture]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 10:13 AM Patrick Venture <venture at google.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Looks like the issue is 5.0.6 doesn't have the lpc parameter optional patchset.

> >
> > 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
> >