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28.Dd October 25, 2017
29.Dt IPMI 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm ipmi
33.Nd "OpenIPMI compatible IPMI interface driver"
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Cd "device ipmi"
36.Pp
37To manually specify I/O attachment in
38.Pa /boot/device.hints :
39.Cd hint.ipmi.0.at="isa"
40.Cd hint.ipmi.0.port="0xCA2"
41.Cd hint.ipmi.0.spacing="8"
42.Cd hint.ipmi.0.mode="KCS"
43.Pp
44To manually specify memory attachment in
45.Pa /boot/device.hints :
46.Cd hint.ipmi.0.at="isa"
47.Cd hint.ipmi.0.maddr="0xf0000000"
48.Cd hint.ipmi.0.spacing="8"
49.Cd hint.ipmi.0.mode="SMIC"
50.Pp
51Meaning of
52.Ar spacing :
53.Bl -tag -offset indent -compact -width 0x0
54.It 8
558 bit alignment
56.It 16
5716 bit alignment
58.It 32
5932 bit alignment
60.El
61.Pp
62If the
63.Ar port
64and
65.Ar spacing
66are not specified the interface type default will be used.
67Only specify either the
68.Ar port
69for I/O access or
70.Ar maddr
71for memory access.
72.Sh DESCRIPTION
73The
74.Tn IPMI
75(Intelligent Platform Management Interface) is a standard for
76monitoring system hardware by permitting generic code to detect
77and monitor the sensors in a system.
78The
79.Tn IPMI
80standard offers watchdog support, an FRU database, and other
81support extensions.
82It is currently being adopted by the makers of many
83single board and embedded system manufacturers.
84.Pp
85The
86.Nm
87driver in
88.Fx
89is heavily adopted from the standard and
90.Tn Linux
91driver; however, not all features described in the
92standard are supported.
93.Pp
94The
95.Nm
96driver implements the power cycling option to
97.Xr shutdown 8
98to implement power cycling of the system.
99The motherboard's BMC must support the chassis device and the optional
100power cycle subcomand of the chassis control command as described in section 28.3
101of the IPMI standard.
102The length of time the system is off will be at least one second, but
103may be longer if the power cycle interval has been set (see section 28.9).
104.Sh IOCTLS
105Sending and receiving messages through the
106.Nm
107driver requires the use of
108.Xr ioctl 2 .
109The ioctls are used due to the complexity of
110data sent to and from the device.
111The
112.Xr ioctl 2
113command codes below are defined in
114.In sys/ipmi.h .
115The third argument to
116.Xr ioctl 2
117should be a pointer to the type indicated.
118.Pp
119Currently the following ioctls are supported:
120.Bl -tag -width indent
121.It Dv IPMICTL_RECEIVE_MSG Pq Vt "struct ipmi_recv"
122Receive a message.
123Possible error values:
124.Bl -tag -width Er
125.It Bq Er EAGAIN
126No messages are in the process queue.
127.It Bq Er EFAULT
128An address supplied was invalid.
129.It Bq Er EMSGSIZE
130The address could not fit in the message buffer and
131will remain in the buffer.
132.El
133.It Dv IPMICTL_RECEIVE_MSG_TRUNC Pq Vt "struct ipmi_recv"
134Like
135.Dv IPMICTL_RECEIVE_MSG
136but if the message cannot fit into the buffer, it
137will truncate the contents instead of leaving the data
138in the buffer.
139.It Dv IPMICTL_SEND_COMMAND Pq Vt "struct ipmi_req"
140Send a message to the interface.
141Possible error values:
142.Bl -tag -width Er
143.It Bq Er EFAULT
144An address supplied was invalid.
145.It Bq Er ENOMEM
146Buffers could not be allowed for the command, out of memory.
147.El
148.It Dv IPMICTL_SET_MY_ADDRESS_CMD Pq Vt "unsigned int"
149Set the slave address for source messages.
150.It Dv IPMICTL_GET_MY_ADDRESS_CMD Pq Vt "unsigned int"
151Get the slave address for source messages.
152.It Dv IPMICTL_SET_MY_LUN_CMD Pq Vt "unsigned int"
153Set the slave LUN for source messages.
154.It Dv IPMICTL_GET_MY_LUN_CMD Pq Vt "unsigned int"
155Get the slave LUN for source messages.
156.El
157.Ss Unimplemented Ioctls
158.Bl -tag -width indent
159.It Dv IPMICTL_REGISTER_FOR_CMD Pq Vt "struct ipmi_cmdspec"
160Register to receive a specific command.
161Possible error values:
162.Bl -tag -width Er
163.It Bq Er EFAULT
164An supplied address was invalid.
165.It Bq Er EBUSY
166The network function/command is already in use.
167.It Bq Er ENOMEM
168Could not allocate memory.
169.El
170.It Dv IPMICTL_UNREGISTER_FOR_CMD Pq Vt "struct ipmi_cmdspec"
171Unregister to receive a specific command.
172Possible error values:
173.Bl -tag -width Er
174.It Bq Er EFAULT
175An address supplied was invalid.
176.It Bq Er ENOENT
177The network function/command was not found.
178.El
179.El
180.Ss Stub Only Ioctl
181.Bl -tag -width indent
182.It Dv IPMICTL_SET_GETS_EVENTS_CMD Pq Vt int
183Set whether this interface receives events.
184Possible error values:
185.Bl -tag -width Er
186.It Bq Er EFAULT
187An address supplied was invalid.
188.El
189.El
190.Sh SEE ALSO
191.Xr ioctl 2 ,
192.Xr watchdog 4 ,
193.Xr reboot 8 ,
194.Xr shutdown 8 ,
195.Xr watchdog 8 ,
196.Xr watchdogd 8 ,
197.Xr watchdog 9
198.Sh HISTORY
199The
200.Nm
201driver first appeared in
202.Fx 6.2 .
203.Sh AUTHORS
204.An -nosplit
205The
206.Nm
207driver was written by
208.An Doug Ambrisko Aq Mt ambrisko@FreeBSD.org .
209This manual page was written by
210.An Tom Rhodes Aq Mt trhodes@FreeBSD.org .
211.Sh BUGS
212Not all features of the MontaVista driver are supported.
213.Pp
214Currently, IPMB and BT modes are not implemented.
215