2005-01-30 18:44:06

by David Härdeman

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Subject: IPMI smbus and Intel 6300ESB Watchdog drivers

Hi,

(third question to LKML today =)

I've recently bought an Intel SE7210TP1-E mainboard (specs here:
http://www.intel.com/design/servers/boards/SE7210TP1-E/index.htm) and I
now have most things working.

There are however, two questionmarks left.

1) On the mainboard is a 6300ESB Watchdog Timer (pci id 8086:25ab), but
there seems to be no driver available for it. Does anyone know if there
is any such driver in progress or if I've misunderstood the situation?

2) IPMI, Documentation/IPMI.txt mentions a ipmi_smb driver, but I could
find no such driver in the 2.6.10 tree. Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance for any enlightenment.

Regards,
David H?rdeman

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2005-01-30 21:13:16

by Peter Lundkvist

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Subject: Re: IPMI smbus and Intel 6300ESB Watchdog drivers

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 07:44:01PM +0100, David H?rdeman wrote:
>
> 1) On the mainboard is a 6300ESB Watchdog Timer (pci id 8086:25ab), but
> there seems to be no driver available for it. Does anyone know if there
> is any such driver in progress or if I've misunderstood the situation?

You can use the other watchdog in this chip, the TCO timer. The
driver needs a patch to work with 6300ESB.

Peter


--- linux-2.6.10/drivers/char/watchdog/i8xx_tco.c.org 2005-01-30 21:45:39.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.10/drivers/char/watchdog/i8xx_tco.c 2005-01-30 21:53:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -362,6 +362,7 @@
{ PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_82801DB_0, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, },
{ PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_82801E_0, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, },
{ PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_82801EB_0, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, },
+ { PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ESB_1, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, },
{ 0, }, /* End of list */
};
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE (pci, i8xx_tco_pci_tbl);

2005-01-30 22:14:03

by Bukie Mabayoje

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Subject: Re: IPMI smbus and Intel 6300ESB Watchdog drivers



David H?rdeman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> (third question to LKML today =)
>
> I've recently bought an Intel SE7210TP1-E mainboard (specs here:
> http://www.intel.com/design/servers/boards/SE7210TP1-E/index.htm) and I
> now have most things working.
>
> There are however, two questionmarks left.
>
> 1) On the mainboard is a 6300ESB Watchdog Timer (pci id 8086:25ab), but
> there seems to be no driver available for it.

6300ESB is not a Watchdog Timer. It is an I/O Controller hub that includes a watch dog timer.

> Does anyone know if there
> is any such driver in progress or if I've misunderstood the situation?

If you tell me why you are interested in the WDT, then maybe I will be able answer your question.

>
>
> 2) IPMI, Documentation/IPMI.txt mentions a ipmi_smb driver, but I could
> find no such driver in the 2.6.10 tree. Am I missing something?

Do you get the ISM package that shipped with the board? The ISM software stack in not part of the kernel. The IPMI stuff is part of Server Management.

>
>
> Thanks in advance for any enlightenment.
>
> Regards,
> David H?rdeman
>
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2005-01-31 20:46:37

by David Härdeman

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Subject: Re: IPMI smbus and Intel 6300ESB Watchdog drivers

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 10:13:09PM +0100, Peter Lundkvist wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 07:44:01PM +0100, David H?rdeman wrote:
>>
>> 1) On the mainboard is a 6300ESB Watchdog Timer (pci id 8086:25ab), but
>> there seems to be no driver available for it. Does anyone know if there
>> is any such driver in progress or if I've misunderstood the situation?
>
>You can use the other watchdog in this chip, the TCO timer. The
>driver needs a patch to work with 6300ESB.
>
>Peter
>
>
>--- linux-2.6.10/drivers/char/watchdog/i8xx_tco.c.org 2005-01-30 21:45:39.000000000 +0100
>+++ linux-2.6.10/drivers/char/watchdog/i8xx_tco.c 2005-01-30 21:53:21.000000000 +0100
>@@ -362,6 +362,7 @@
> { PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_82801DB_0, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, },
> { PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_82801E_0, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, },
> { PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_82801EB_0, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, },
>+ { PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ESB_1, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, },
> { 0, }, /* End of list */
> };
> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE (pci, i8xx_tco_pci_tbl);
>
>

Thanks, that worked like a charm.

I hope the maintainer for the bk-watchdog tree can pick up and integrate
the patch so it finds its way to the kernel mainline.

Regards,
David

2005-01-31 20:56:20

by David Härdeman

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Subject: Re: IPMI smbus and Intel 6300ESB Watchdog drivers

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 02:26:03PM -0800, Bukie Mabayoje wrote:
>David H?rdeman wrote:
>> 1) On the mainboard is a 6300ESB Watchdog Timer (pci id 8086:25ab), but
>> there seems to be no driver available for it.
>
>6300ESB is not a Watchdog Timer. It is an I/O Controller hub that includes a watch dog timer.

Ah well, I just quoted the output of lspci...

>> Does anyone know if there
>> is any such driver in progress or if I've misunderstood the situation?
>
>If you tell me why you are interested in the WDT, then maybe I will be able answer your question.

Hummm? In order to have watchdog functionality on the machine? But
nevermind, I already got that question answered (with the pci id update
for i8xx_tco).

>>
>>
>> 2) IPMI, Documentation/IPMI.txt mentions a ipmi_smb driver, but I could
>> find no such driver in the 2.6.10 tree. Am I missing something?
>
>Do you get the ISM package that shipped with the board? The ISM software stack in not part of the kernel. The IPMI stuff is part of Server Management.
>

As for IPMI, I have no idea, I just have no experience of it at all and
I saw that this mmotherboard supported IPMI so I thought it could be an
interesting experiment to learn a bit more about IPMI.

Re,
David