transitioning from 4.17.18 to 5.0.6

[Andrew Jeffery]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2019, at 23:56, Patrick Venture wrote:
> 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?

Not that I'm aware of. Vijay has been pinging Joel periodically, I'm not
sure why he hasn't merged it. I'd like to wait until Joel can respond in
case there's something I've missed here.

Andrew