Re: IPMI misbehaving on ARM defconfigs, was [Re: stable boot: 18 pass, 4 fail (v3.10.39)]

[Corey Minyard]

You probably don't have an IPMI controller on your system.  You can just
remove the driver from the config.  Kernel 3.15 will have the default
probing removed, and you won't see these messages any more.

-corey

On 05/07/2014 09:20 AM, Jason Cooper wrote:
> Cory, all,
>
> On our ARM boot farm, we've started seeing the following:
>
> On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 08:56:47AM -0700, Kevin's boot bot wrote:
>> Tree/Branch: stable
>> Git describe: v3.10.39
>> Failed boot tests (console logs at the end)
>> ===========================================
>>                    da850-evm:     FAIL:    arm-davinci_all_defconfig
>>   armada-xp-openblocks-ax3-4:     FAIL:    arm-multi_v7_defconfig
>>           armada-370-mirabox:     FAIL:    arm-multi_v7_defconfig
>>         sun4i-a10-cubieboard:     FAIL:    arm-multi_v7_defconfig
>>
> ...
>> arm-multi_v7_defconfig
>> ----------------------
>>
>> 	armada-xp-openblocks-ax3-4: FAIL: last 80 lines of boot log:
>> 	------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> pps_core: LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered
>> pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@xxxxxxxx>
>> PTP clock support registered
>> EDAC MC: Ver: 3.0.0
>> Switching to clocksource armada_370_xp_clocksource
>> bounce pool size: 64 pages
>> Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 251)
>> io scheduler noop registered
>> io scheduler deadline registered
>> io scheduler cfq registered (default)
>> armada-xp-pinctrl d0018000.pinctrl: registered pinctrl driver
>> ipmi message handler version 39.2
>> IPMI System Interface driver.
>> ipmi_si: Adding default-specified kcs state machine
>> ipmi_si: Trying default-specified kcs state machine at i/o address 0xca2, slave address 0x0, irq 0
>> ipmi_si: Could not set up I/O space
>> Trying to free nonexistent resource <0000000000000ca2-0000000000000ca2>
>> Trying to free nonexistent resource <0000000000000ca3-0000000000000ca3>
>> ipmi_si: Adding default-specified smic state machine
>> ipmi_si: Trying default-specified smic state machine at i/o address 0xca9, slave address 0x0, irq 0
>> ipmi_si: Could not set up I/O space
>> Trying to free nonexistent resource <0000000000000ca9-0000000000000ca9>
>> Trying to free nonexistent resource <0000000000000caa-0000000000000caa>
>> Trying to free nonexistent resource <0000000000000cab-0000000000000cab>
>> ipmi_si: Adding default-specified bt state machine
>> ipmi_si: Trying default-specified bt state machine at i/o address 0xe4, slave address 0x0, irq 0
>> ipmi_si: Could not set up I/O space
>> Trying to free nonexistent resource <00000000000000e4-00000000000000e4>
>> Trying to free nonexistent resource <00000000000000e5-00000000000000e5>
>> Trying to free nonexistent resource <00000000000000e6-00000000000000e6>
>> ipmi_si: Unable to find any System Interface(s)
>> Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
> ...
>
> It appears to be unrelated to the failure this original message was
> about.  However, the failure brought the above to our attention. :)
>
> Is the IPMI driver used on ARM?  Documentation/IPMI.txt indicates a
> dependency on ACPI, but that isn't reflected in the Kconfig.  At any
> rate, it seems rather unhappy.  :(
>
> thx,
>
> Jason.

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