Re: [Freeipmi-devel] [Freeipmi-users] FreeIPMI on NetBSD (partial patch)

[Albert Chu]

Hi Ben,

On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 20:36 -0700, Ben C. wrote:
> Apologies for the cross posing here, the freeipmi-devel@ mailing list
> seems pretty dead.  I probably should of posted In freeipmi-users@ to
> begin with.

freeipmi-devel is alive and well, I just didn't check over the weekend.

> I finally got it to compile using this patch I made myself (kind of,
> thanks mostly to the NetBSD developer 'joerg' who wrote the asm*
> functions, I'm pretty sure he did.)
> 
> http://pastebin.com/9mQpAuDZ
> In text: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=9mQpAuDZ

I'm not sure why inb/outb aren't in your system to begin with.  I'll
have to let more BSD knowledgeable folks respond.

> However, it still doesn't work:
> 
> # bmc-config --checkout
> could not find inband device
> 
> I've tried various drivers and devices although they were either
> incorrect

What do you mean by "they were incorrect"?  Not working?  Or reporting
the wrong information?  Was there any software provided by the vendor
that at least minimally worked to show the system did indeed support
IPMI?

>  or freeipmi is broken in a way I do not understand nor how
> to fix.  

Assuming the inb/outb implementation you have is correct, there are a
multitude of things that could be going on.  Your system may not
advertise the proper address to communicate with, so FreeIPMI is simply
be trying defaults (which may not work).

Lets start by seeing what is on your system.  Can you run ipmi-locate,
then run tools like dmidecode? (NetBSD's equivalent tool might be
something different).

> There was some messages on the mailing lists about NetBSD
> support a year or two ago, -- I'm surprised it doesn't work 'out of
> the box' already.

Others added NetBSD support into FreeIPMI, so I can't comment why it
didn't work outright.  NetBSD could have changed, or maybe they made an
incorrect assumption, or a bug could have creeped in to.

Al

> Anyone know the solution this time?
> 
> Thanks, Ben
> 
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Ben C. <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Since there is no package in pkgsrc for FreeIPMI I have recently taken
> > the task of building it the old fashioned way on my system.  I've had
> > quite a few issues-but this one, I'm stuck at.  Right now my configure
> > line looks something like this:
> >
> > ./configure LDFLAGS='-L/usr/pkg/lib/ -lpthread' CFLAGS='-I/usr/pkg/include/'
> >
> > Which ends with some errors (below).  The only thing I can find
> > related are build errors associated with an entirely different
> > architecture, ppc64.  Something about sys/io.h... glibc.. I'm really
> > at a loss/over my head on this.  Any ideas? I've also pastebin'd the
> > entire clean/configure/make log if anyone has a moment to help:
> >
> > Paste: http://pastebin.com/UwTb3b6n
> >
> > Or, to view it without pastebin's ads, html, and other junk:
> > http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=UwTb3b6n
> >
> > Thanks, Ben
> >
> > -------
> > [snip]
> > *** Warning: Linking the executable bmc-config against the loadable module
> > *** libfreeipmi.so is not portable!
> > libtool: link: gcc -I/usr/pkg/include/ -o .libs/bmc-config
> > bmc-config.o bmc-config-argp.o bmc-config-channel-common.o
> > bmc-config-map.o bmc-config-sections.o bmc-config-utils.o
> > bmc-config-user-sections.o bmc-config-lan-channel-section.o
> > bmc-config-serial-channel-section.o bmc-config-lan-conf-section.o
> > bmc-config-lan-conf-auth-section.o
> > bmc-config-lan-conf-security-keys-section.o
> > bmc-config-lan-conf-misc-section.o
> > bmc-config-lan-conf-user-security-section.o
> > bmc-config-rmcpplus-conf-privilege-section.o
> > bmc-config-serial-conf-section.o bmc-config-pef-conf-section.o
> > bmc-config-sol-conf-section.o bmc-config-misc-section.o
> > bmc-config-validate.o  -L/usr/pkg/lib/
> > ../../common/src/configtool/.libs/libconfigtoolcommon.a
> > ../../common/src/toolcommon/.libs/libtoolcommon.a
> > ../../common/src/toolhostrange/.libs/libtoolhostrange.a
> > ../../common/src/miscutil/.libs/libmiscutils.a
> > ../../common/src/parsecommon/.libs/libparsecommon.a
> > ../../common/src/portability/.libs/libfreeipmiportability.a
> > ../../libipmidetect/src/.libs/libipmidetect.so
> > ../../libfreeipmi/src/.libs/libfreeipmi.so -L/usr/pkg/lib
> > /usr/pkg/lib/libgcrypt.so /usr/pkg/lib/libgpg-error.so -lintl
> > -lpthread -lm -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath
> > -Wl,/usr/pkg/lib
> > ../../libfreeipmi/src/.libs/libfreeipmi.so: undefined reference to `inb'
> > ../../libfreeipmi/src/.libs/libfreeipmi.so: undefined reference to `outb'
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop.
> > make: stopped in /root/freeipmi-1.0.4/bmc-config/src
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop.
> > make: stopped in /root/freeipmi-1.0.4/bmc-config
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop.
> > make: stopped in /root/freeipmi-1.0.4
> >
> 
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