Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:10:02 +1030 From: "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with HP DL380 Message-ID: <20041121004001.GB7395@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <20041120104224.E566@korben.prv.univie.ac.at> References: <20041116170615.K92983@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at> <20041120.000624.122832691.imp@bsdimp.com> <20041120104224.E566@korben.prv.univie.ac.at>
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what is meant by 'C3 state' ? - aW 0n Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 10:46:25AM +0100, Lukas Ertl wrote: > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > >: Setting hw.pci.do_powerstate=0 in /boot/loader.conf fixes this problem. > > > >Dang. I missed the earlier part of this thread. You shouldn't need > >to do this if I coded things up right. But, alas, you do. Can you > >send me the details? > > No, I think you did everything right. If I understand it correctly, then > hw.pci.do_powerstate puts a device into C3 state if no driver attaches. > That's just what happens here. That iLO service processor of the DL380s > shows up as normal PCI device, but exports the console to the network even > without specific driver (as there is none for FreeBSD), so that it works > independent of the OS. > > So, since there is no driver, the device gets powered down as soon as the > kernel initializes its ACPI parts, and then the iLO console stops working. > > cheers, > le > > -- > Lukas Ertl http://homepage.univie.ac.at/l.ertl/ > le@FreeBSD.org http://people.freebsd.org/~le/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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