[Xen-bugs] [Bug 393] dom0 OpenIPMI driver neither finds nor initializes BMC

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------- Additional Comments From aball@xxxxxxxxxx  2005-11-14 04:55 -------
The code that's trying to read memory at physical addresses 0xf0000-0xfffff is
in linux-2.6.12-xen0/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c .

In a dom0 Linux kernel, the call to isa_memcpy_fromio() in this file does not
actually read all 0's from the memory region 0xf0000-0xfffff as I originally
thought.  It does not, however, read the memory at physical addresses
0xf0000-0xfffff either.  A quick check of the first 16 bytes starting at address
0xf0000 read via isa_memcpy_fromio() in the kernel and read via mmap() on
/dev/mem in userspace confirm this.

If I change dmi_decode() to use the same method of reading memory as dmi_table()
uses, dmi_decode() reads the correct portion of memory and the ipmi_si module
loads correctly.

Why does isa_memcpy_fromio() behave differently on dom0 than on a regular Linux
2.6.12.6 kernel?  Can isa_memcpy_fromio() be made to behave as the ipmi_si
module expects it to without breaking other parts of the kernel?

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