[Linux-PowerEdge] S3 (Suspend to RAM) on servers (R730)

2017-02-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Dell people, To my surprise, the firmware (2.3.4) of the Dell PowerEdge R730 doesn’t seem to support Suspend to RAM (STR). ``` $ more /proc/version Linux version 4.9.0-1-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 6.3.0 20161229 (Debian 6.3.0-2) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.9.2-2

[Linux-PowerEdge] [RFH] Linux warnings about ACPI IPMI and BMC (recv irq bit)

2017-02-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Dell PowerEdge users, Installing Debian 9 with Linux 4.9.x and CentOS 7 with Linux 3.10.x on a Dell PowerEdge R730. In both versions the Linux kernel reports the errors below. ``` […] kernel: ipmi message handler version 39.2 kernel: IPMI System Interface driver. kernel: ipmi_si:

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] [RFH] Linux warnings about ACPI IPMI and BMC (recv irq bit)

2017-02-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Mike, Thank you very much for your answer. (Sorry for formatting my pastes as citations. It’s because otherwise Mozilla Thunderbird will wrap around the lines. On 02/16/17 18:18, Hanby, Mike wrote: > This is from one of our R730's: > $ omreport chassis info | egrep -i

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] Missing EDAC support for Intel Haswell devices

2016-08-22 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Sven, On 08/22/16 14:16, Sven Ulland wrote: On 08/22/2016 12:17 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: My current suspicion is, that just a PCI ID is missing in the driver. What is the PCI ID of your memory controller? The lspci output above seems to have been cut before the memory controllers were

[Linux-PowerEdge] Not receiving duplicates from mailing list

2016-08-22 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Dell list administrators, Although I have set the option *Avoid duplicate copies of messages?* to *no* [1], I only received John’s replies once, and not twice as expected. Could you please look into it, and fix the Mailman setup if needed? Best regards, Paul Menzel [1] https

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] Missing EDAC support for Intel Haswell devices

2016-08-22 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear John, On 08/22/16 12:29, John Hodrien wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, Paul Menzel wrote: > >>> BMC supports all it needs to support, so fault reports will be reported >>> via DRAC / esmlog, no? >> >> That’s the first time I hear about esmlog. How do

[Linux-PowerEdge] Missing EDAC support for Intel Haswell devices

2016-08-22 Thread Paul Menzel
out of the box, and it’s Dell’s job to verify that, and, if they can’t fix it, contact Intel to fix it. Do I need to open a separate ticket for this issue, or are Dell employees reading this, who can bring it up with the right people? Best regards, Paul Menzel PS: I am sorry

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] Missing EDAC support for Intel Haswell devices

2016-08-22 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear John, Thank you for your reply. On 08/22/16 12:21, John Hodrien wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, Paul Menzel wrote: > >> That’s unacceptable for that kind of money that system costs. >> >> My current suspicion is, that just a PCI ID is missing in the driver. >>

[Linux-PowerEdge] Fwd: [PATCH] PCI: Mark Haswell Power Control Unit as having non-compliant BARs

2016-08-31 Thread Paul Menzel
/show_bug.cgi?id=153881 Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmen...@molgen.mpg.de> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelg...@google.com> --- arch/x86/pci/fixup.c | 20 +--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/fixup.c b/arch/x86/pci/fixup.c i

[Linux-PowerEdge] Undelivered email

2016-08-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear list administrators, Neither my reply to Sven, nor his reply made it to the list yesterday. Other messages are delivered though. Could you please look into it? The Message-ID header field of my undelivered message is `3307b804-c0ee-a0a1-0520-90dd0fb9c...@molgen.mpg.de`. Best regards,

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] R815 BIOS updates to mitigate Spectre don't mitigate Spectre

2018-04-27 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Matt, On 04/26/18 22:55, Matt Vander Werf wrote: I noticed that Dell released BIOS updates for R815 systems to address the Spectre vulnerability (variant #2, CVE-2017-5715) at [1]. The new version is 3.4.0 and the previous latest version is 3.2.2. We have quite a few R815 systems running

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] R815 BIOS updates to mitigate Spectre don't mitigate Spectre

2018-04-27 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear lejeczek, On 04/27/18 15:18, lejeczek wrote: more importantly !! why dsu does not find this new BIOS versions - @dell guys? Why is your issue more important? And, please be more polite, and do not hijack threads, and follow the netiquette – [1] is one example. Anyway, from the

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] R815 BIOS updates to mitigate Spectre don't mitigate Spectre

2018-05-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Matt, Am 24.05.2018 um 18:22 schrieb Matt Vander Werf: To update everyone, it appears that Dell has released a new 3.4.1 BIOS update for R815 as of today. It hasn't been added to the Meltdown/Spectre status page (also of course not in DSU yet), but it can be found here:

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] R815 BIOS updates to mitigate Spectre don't mitigate Spectre

2018-05-03 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Matt, On 04/30/18 16:44, Matt Vander Werf wrote: I did actually test also on an R815 running Opteron 6234 as well, and got the same result. Microcode version is different (0x600063d) but also did not change with the update. Thank you for sharing the information. Systems running