OEM-IPMI Commands to talk to Phosphor-pid-control

Sensor Data Pushing Advice

For temperature sensors not reachable by the BMC, sensor readings can be pushed to the BMC from the host, by using the IPMI SDR as shared storage.

To do this, it is recommended that ExternalSensor be used. ExternalSensor can add virtual sensors to the IPMI SDR. The host can then write values to these virtual sensors, to keep them up to date. Thus, these sensors will become visible on the BMC, and can be used normally, similar to other temperature sensors already on the BMC.

For temperature sensors on the BMC, including those added with ExternalSensor as mentioned above, these can be manipulated through normal IPMI commands, and are already supported. The same applies to fan RPM and PWM sensors. No additional OEM commands are required to use these.

IPMI OEM Command Specification

OEM Get/Set Control Mode

A host tool needs to be able to set the control of the thermal system to either automatic or manual. When manual, the daemon will effectively wait to be told to be put back in automatic mode. It is expected in this manual mode that something will be controlling the fans via the other commands.

Manual mode is controlled by zone through the following OEM command:

Request

Byte	Purpose	Value
`00`	`netfn`	`0x2e`
`01`	`command`	`0x04 (also using manual command)`
`02`	`oem1`	`0xcf`
`03`	`oem2`	`0xc2`
`04`	`padding`	`0x00`
`05`	`SubCommand`	`Get or Set. Get == 0, Set == 1`
`06`	`ZoneId`
`07`	`Mode`	`If Set, Value 1 == Manual Mode, 0 == Automatic Mode`

Response

Byte	Purpose	Value
`02`	`oem1`	`0xcf`
`03`	`oem2`	`0xc2`
`04`	`padding`	`0x00`
`07`	`Mode`	`If Set, Value 1 == Manual Mode, 0 == Automatic Mode`

OEM Get Failsafe Mode

A host tool needs to be able to read back whether a zone is in failsafe mode. This setting is read-only because it's dynamically determined within phosphor-pid-control per zone.

Byte	Purpose	Value
`00`	`netfn`	`0x2e`
`01`	`command`	`0x04 (also using manual command)`
`02`	`oem1`	`0xcf`
`03`	`oem2`	`0xc2`
`04`	`padding`	`0x00`
`05`	`SubCommand`	`Get == 2`
`06`	`ZoneId`

Response

Byte	Purpose	Value
`02`	`oem1`	`0xcf`
`03`	`oem2`	`0xc2`
`04`	`padding`	`0x00`
`07`	`failsafe`	`1 == in Failsafe Mode, 0 not in failsafe mode`