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14 October 2013: AlphaServer DS20L
I'd wanted an rack-mounted Alpha for a little while, and recently bought an HP AlphaServer DS20L from Ebay. I installed NetBSD 6.1.1 on it and noticed in dmesg that the ALI7101 SMBus (i²c) controller wasn't configured. Adding:
# Acer Labs M7101 SMBus controller
alipm* at pci? dev ? function ?
iic* at alipm?
to the kernel configuration and rebuilding gave me an i²c bus, but no devices. NetBSD has the i2cscan utility, which allows scanning of some i²c buses for devices. Running this gave me the following output:
/dev/iic0: found device at 0x23
/dev/iic0: found device at 0x2c
/dev/iic0: found device at 0x2d
/dev/iic0: found device at 0x2e
/dev/iic0: found device at 0x2f
/dev/iic0: found device at 0x38
/dev/iic0: found device at 0x4e
/dev/iic0: found device at 0x51
/dev/iic0: 8 devices found
Looking on the system board with a magnifying glass, I was able to identify Philips PCF8574 I/O controller and Philips PCF8582C EEPROM chips. Also, by searching for typical addresses, I guessed that the PCF8574 was at address 0x23, but I wasn't sure what the other devices were.
It's simple to modify i2cscan to also read or write bytes, so I tried reading register values in the i²c devices to try and work out what kind of chips they were. Beware! It's possible to lock up the system by doing this. I managed to do that a few times, and also ended up resetting part of the NVRAM and setting the System Fail LED to be on continuously.
After searching for a list of DS20L i²c devices, I came across an OpenBSD 3.9 dmesg showing their lmenv driver attaching at addresses 0x2c to 0x2f. It was fairly simple to port this to NetBSD. The DS20L dmesg is now:
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NetBSD 6.99.24 (GENERIC-$Revision: 1.353 $) #15: Mon Oct 14 19:59:46 BST 2013
root@orion.coris.org.uk:/usr/obj/alpha/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/DS20L
hp AlphaServer DS20L 833 MHz, s/n 0321700494
8192 byte page size, 2 processors.
total memory = 1024 MB
(2808 KB reserved for PROM, 1021 MB used by NetBSD)
avail memory = 995 MB
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: ID 0 (primary), 21264B-4
cpu0: Architecture extensions: 0x1307<PAT,MVI,CIX,FIX,BWX>
cpu1 at mainbus0: ID 1, 21264B-4
cpu1: processor off-line; multiprocessor support not present in kernel
tsc0 at mainbus0: 21272 Core Logic Chipset, Cchip rev 0
tsc0: 4 Dchips, 1 memory bus of 32 bytes
tsc0: arrays present: 1024MB (split), 0MB, 0MB, 0MB, Dchip 0 rev 1
tsp0 at tsc0
pci0 at tsp0 bus 0
ahc0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0: Adaptec aic7892 Ultra160 SCSI adapter
ahc0: interrupting at dec 6600 irq 16
ahc0: aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
scsibus0 at ahc0: 16 targets, 8 luns per target
fxp0 at pci0 dev 4 function 0: i82550 Ethernet (rev. 0x0c)
fxp0: interrupting at dec 6600 irq 20
fxp0: Ethernet address 00:02:56:00:22:04
inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 4
inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
ahc1 at pci0 dev 5 function 0: Adaptec 3960D Ultra160 SCSI adapter
ahc1: interrupting at dec 6600 irq 24
ahc1: aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
scsibus1 at ahc1: 16 targets, 8 luns per target
ahc2 at pci0 dev 5 function 1: Adaptec 3960D Ultra160 SCSI adapter
ahc2: interrupting at dec 6600 irq 25
ahc2: aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
scsibus2 at ahc2: 16 targets, 8 luns per target
sio0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0: Acer Labs M1533 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev. 0xc3)
aceride0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0: Acer Labs M5229 UDMA IDE Controller (rev. 0xc2)
aceride0: primary channel interrupting at isa irq 14
atabus0 at aceride0 channel 0
aceride0: secondary channel interrupting at isa irq 15
atabus1 at aceride0 channel 1
alipm0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0: 74KHz clock
iic0 at alipm0: I2C bus
lmenv0 at iic0 addr 0x2c: ADM9240 rev 2
lmenv1 at iic0 addr 0x2d: ADM9240 rev 2
lmenv2 at iic0 addr 0x2e: ADM9240 rev 2
lmenv3 at iic0 addr 0x2f: ADM9240 rev 2
isa0 at sio0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x3bc-0x3bf irq 7
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com0: console
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
attimer0 at isa0 port 0x40-0x43
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: PC speaker
spkr0 at pcppi0
isabeep0 at pcppi0
mcclock0 at isa0 port 0x70-0x71: mc146818 compatible time-of-day clock
attimer0: attached to pcppi0
tsp1 at tsc0
pci1 at tsp1 bus 0
fxp1 at pci1 dev 3 function 0: i82559 Ethernet (rev. 0x08)
fxp1: interrupting at dec 6600 irq 32
fxp1: Ethernet address 00:02:56:00:22:05
inphy1 at fxp1 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 4
inphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
scsibus1: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
scsibus2: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
stray isa irq 15
atapibus0 at atabus1: 2 targets
cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <CD-224E, , A.8D> cdrom removable
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <COMPAQ, BD0186459A, B014> disk fixed
sd0: 17365 MB, 7001 cyl, 20 head, 254 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 35565080 sectors
sd0: sync (25.00ns offset 63), 16-bit (80.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing
root on fxp0
Running envstat shows:
Current CritMax WarnMax WarnMin CritMin Unit
[lmenv0]
+2.5Vin: 2.513 V
Vccp1: 1.617 V
+Vcc: 3.317 V
+5Vin/Vcc: 4.922 V
+12Vin: 12.125 V
Vccp2: 1.167 V
External: N/A
Internal: 29.000 degC
FAN1: 8823 RPM
FAN2: 8766 RPM
[lmenv1]
+2.5Vin: 2.500 V
Vccp1: 1.645 V
+Vcc: 3.300 V
+5Vin/Vcc: 4.922 V
+12Vin: 12.188 V
Vccp2: 0.352 V
External: N/A
Internal: 29.000 degC
FAN1: 8709 RPM
FAN2: 8653 RPM
[lmenv2]
+2.5Vin: 2.513 V
Vccp1: 1.673 V
+Vcc: 3.317 V
+5Vin/Vcc: 4.948 V
+12Vin: 12.188 V
Vccp2: 1.252 V
External: N/A
Internal: 51.000 degC
FAN1: 8544 RPM
FAN2: 5294 RPM
[lmenv3]
+2.5Vin: 0.000 V
Vccp1: 0.000 V
+Vcc: 3.214 V
+5Vin/Vcc: 5.052 V
+12Vin: 12.188 V
Vccp2: 0.000 V
External: N/A
Internal: 40.000 degC
FAN1: 8490 RPM
FAN2: 8083 RPM
These values agree with the CPU 0, CPU 1, Dimm, and I/O readings, respectively, from the SRM show power -verbose command (although the FAN2 reading on lmenv2 is odd and not displayed by the SRM). The changes have all been committed to -current. Next is to find the sensors for the Riser and PSU, the memory chips, and to turn off the System Fail LED.
Commits- lmenv driver
- lmenv driver glue
- lmenv manual page
- lmenv manual page glue
- Alpha sysmon support
- Alpha kernel configuration
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