ipmi: Add docs for the IPMI IPMB driver
Describe how to use the IPMI IPMB driver, including it's quirks. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Tested-by: Andrew Manley <andrew.manley@sealingtech.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Manley <andrew.manley@sealingtech.com>
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The driver supports a hot add and remove of interfaces through the I2C
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sysfs interface.
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The IPMI IPMB Driver
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--------------------
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This driver is for supporting a system that sits on an IPMB bus; it
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allows the interface to look like a normal IPMI interface. Sending
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system interface addressed messages to it will cause the message to go
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to the registered BMC on the system (default at IPMI address 0x20).
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It also allows you to directly address other MCs on the bus using the
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ipmb direct addressing. You can receive commands from other MCs on
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the bus and they will be handled through the normal received command
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mechanism described above.
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Parameters are::
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ipmi_ipmb.bmcaddr=<address to use for system interface addresses messages>
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ipmi_ipmb.retry_time_ms=<Time between retries on IPMB>
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ipmi_ipmb.max_retries=<Number of times to retry a message>
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Loading the module will not result in the driver automatcially
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starting unless there is device tree information setting it up. If
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you want to instantiate one of these by hand, do::
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echo ipmi-ipmb <addr> > /sys/class/i2c-dev/i2c-<n>/device/new_device
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Note that the address you give here is the I2C address, not the IPMI
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address. So if you want your MC address to be 0x60, you put 0x30
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here. See the I2C driver info for more details.
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Command bridging to other IPMB busses through this interface does not
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work. The receive message queue is not implemented, by design. There
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is only one receive message queue on a BMC, and that is meant for the
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host drivers, not something on the IPMB bus.
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A BMC may have multiple IPMB busses, which bus your device sits on
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depends on how the system is wired. You can fetch the channels with
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"ipmitool channel info <n>" where <n> is the channel, with the
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channels being 0-7 and try the IPMB channels.
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Other Pieces
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