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26.Dd October 25, 2017
27.Dt IPMI 4
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm ipmi
31.Nd "OpenIPMI compatible IPMI interface driver"
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.Cd "device ipmi"
34.Pp
35To manually specify I/O attachment in
36.Pa /boot/device.hints :
37.Cd hint.ipmi.0.at="isa"
38.Cd hint.ipmi.0.port="0xCA2"
39.Cd hint.ipmi.0.spacing="8"
40.Cd hint.ipmi.0.mode="KCS"
41.Pp
42To manually specify memory attachment in
43.Pa /boot/device.hints :
44.Cd hint.ipmi.0.at="isa"
45.Cd hint.ipmi.0.maddr="0xf0000000"
46.Cd hint.ipmi.0.spacing="8"
47.Cd hint.ipmi.0.mode="SMIC"
48.Pp
49Meaning of
50.Ar spacing :
51.Bl -tag -offset indent -compact -width 0x0
52.It 8
538 bit alignment
54.It 16
5516 bit alignment
56.It 32
5732 bit alignment
58.El
59.Pp
60If the
61.Ar port
62and
63.Ar spacing
64are not specified the interface type default will be used.
65Only specify either the
66.Ar port
67for I/O access or
68.Ar maddr
69for memory access.
70.Sh DESCRIPTION
71The
72.Tn IPMI
73(Intelligent Platform Management Interface) is a standard for
74monitoring system hardware by permitting generic code to detect
75and monitor the sensors in a system.
76The
77.Tn IPMI
78standard offers watchdog support, an FRU database, and other
79support extensions.
80It is currently being adopted by the makers of many
81single board and embedded system manufacturers.
82.Pp
83The
84.Nm
85driver in
86.Fx
87is heavily adopted from the standard and
88.Tn Linux
89driver; however, not all features described in the
90standard are supported.
91.Pp
92The
93.Nm
94driver implements the power cycling option to
95.Xr shutdown 8
96to implement power cycling of the system.
97The motherboard's BMC must support the chassis device and the optional
98power cycle subcomand of the chassis control command as described in section 28.3
99of the IPMI standard.
100The length of time the system is off will be at least one second, but
101may be longer if the power cycle interval has been set (see section 28.9).
102.Sh IOCTLS
103Sending and receiving messages through the
104.Nm
105driver requires the use of
106.Xr ioctl 2 .
107The ioctls are used due to the complexity of
108data sent to and from the device.
109The
110.Xr ioctl 2
111command codes below are defined in
112.In sys/ipmi.h .
113The third argument to
114.Xr ioctl 2
115should be a pointer to the type indicated.
116.Pp
117Currently the following ioctls are supported:
118.Bl -tag -width indent
119.It Dv IPMICTL_RECEIVE_MSG Pq Vt "struct ipmi_recv"
120Receive a message.
121Possible error values:
122.Bl -tag -width Er
123.It Bq Er EAGAIN
124No messages are in the process queue.
125.It Bq Er EFAULT
126An address supplied was invalid.
127.It Bq Er EMSGSIZE
128The address could not fit in the message buffer and
129will remain in the buffer.
130.El
131.It Dv IPMICTL_RECEIVE_MSG_TRUNC Pq Vt "struct ipmi_recv"
132Like
133.Dv IPMICTL_RECEIVE_MSG
134but if the message cannot fit into the buffer, it
135will truncate the contents instead of leaving the data
136in the buffer.
137.It Dv IPMICTL_SEND_COMMAND Pq Vt "struct ipmi_req"
138Send a message to the interface.
139Possible error values:
140.Bl -tag -width Er
141.It Bq Er EFAULT
142An address supplied was invalid.
143.It Bq Er ENOMEM
144Buffers could not be allowed for the command, out of memory.
145.El
146.It Dv IPMICTL_SET_MY_ADDRESS_CMD Pq Vt "unsigned int"
147Set the slave address for source messages.
148.It Dv IPMICTL_GET_MY_ADDRESS_CMD Pq Vt "unsigned int"
149Get the slave address for source messages.
150.It Dv IPMICTL_SET_MY_LUN_CMD Pq Vt "unsigned int"
151Set the slave LUN for source messages.
152.It Dv IPMICTL_GET_MY_LUN_CMD Pq Vt "unsigned int"
153Get the slave LUN for source messages.
154.El
155.Ss Unimplemented Ioctls
156.Bl -tag -width indent
157.It Dv IPMICTL_REGISTER_FOR_CMD Pq Vt "struct ipmi_cmdspec"
158Register to receive a specific command.
159Possible error values:
160.Bl -tag -width Er
161.It Bq Er EFAULT
162An supplied address was invalid.
163.It Bq Er EBUSY
164The network function/command is already in use.
165.It Bq Er ENOMEM
166Could not allocate memory.
167.El
168.It Dv IPMICTL_UNREGISTER_FOR_CMD Pq Vt "struct ipmi_cmdspec"
169Unregister to receive a specific command.
170Possible error values:
171.Bl -tag -width Er
172.It Bq Er EFAULT
173An address supplied was invalid.
174.It Bq Er ENOENT
175The network function/command was not found.
176.El
177.El
178.Ss Stub Only Ioctl
179.Bl -tag -width indent
180.It Dv IPMICTL_SET_GETS_EVENTS_CMD Pq Vt int
181Set whether this interface receives events.
182Possible error values:
183.Bl -tag -width Er
184.It Bq Er EFAULT
185An address supplied was invalid.
186.El
187.El
188.Sh SEE ALSO
189.Xr ioctl 2 ,
190.Xr watchdog 4 ,
191.Xr reboot 8 ,
192.Xr shutdown 8 ,
193.Xr watchdog 8 ,
194.Xr watchdogd 8 ,
195.Xr watchdog 9
196.Sh HISTORY
197The
198.Nm
199driver first appeared in
200.Fx 6.2 .
201.Sh AUTHORS
202.An -nosplit
203The
204.Nm
205driver was written by
206.An Doug Ambrisko Aq Mt ambrisko@FreeBSD.org .
207This manual page was written by
208.An Tom Rhodes Aq Mt trhodes@FreeBSD.org .
209.Sh BUGS
210Not all features of the MontaVista driver are supported.
211.Pp
212Currently, IPMB and BT modes are not implemented.
213