transitioning from 4.17.18 to 5.0.6

[Patrick Venture]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 8:05 PM Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2019, at 01:06, Patrick Venture wrote:
> > 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.
>
> The only place I've found the patch applied is in one of Joel's personal trees.

That would explain why I couldn't find it in the usual places.

>
> Seems bizarre.

Sorry, I stopped following that patchset a while back, I just assumed
it landed.  Was there some push back?

>
> Andrew