openipmi - ipmi_si driver not installing

[Anony Mous]

To whom it may concern,

I tried including the openipmi package in the image I built. The image is
for a system with an AST2500 (ARM core) BMC. I also included the necessary
configurations in the configuration file. dmesg shows the following:

[    1.037509] IPMI message handler: version 39.2
[    1.037713] ipmi device interface
[    1.037855] ipmi_si: IPMI System Interface driver
[    1.038289] ipmi_si: Unable to find any System Interface(s)
[    1.038319] ipmi_ssif: IPMI SSIF Interface driver
[    1.038569] IPMI Watchdog: driver initialized
[    1.038597] IPMI poweroff: Copyright (C) 2004 MontaVista Software - IPMI
Powerdown via sys_reboot
[    8.346526] systemd[1]: /lib/systemd/system/phosphor-ipmi-net at .socket:3:
Invalid interface name, ignoring: sys-subsystem-net-devices-%i.device

The issue I'm having is "ipmi_si: Unable to find any System interface(s)".

1. Why is that module not being loaded?
2. What is the reason for that error?
3. When I do an lsmod, it returns nothing and when I check /proc/moodules,
the file is empty. Why is this and how can I fix it?
4. Also modprobe and insmod give an error when I try loading ipmi_si
manually (seen below). The folder /lib/modules does not exist for some
reason. How would I be able to include the /lib/modules folder structure in
the openbmc image?



* insmod: ERROR: could not load module ipmi_si: No such file or directory*
*modprobe: FATAL: Module ipmi_si not found in directory /lib/modules/5.4.16*

5. Is openipmi driver required for executing ipmitool commands (i.e.
ipmitool raw <commands>) on the BMC?

Thank you for your time.
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