oxidecomputer / oxidecomputer/hubris

when the fan hotswaps don't show power good and we can't sequence, we should go ask them why

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Description

Our level one diagnostics work great, this is from a failure at a customer site:

Diagnosis { now: 0x763282, reason: MapoDetected, details: StuckInIdle { why: FanPowerNotOk, a0_en: true } }

So cool, we MAPO'd because one (or more) of the fan hotswaps lost PG. Each of the fan hotswaps has an i2c interface:

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We should go ask the errant hotswap why it's off and provide that information as the next level of diagnosis.

Ideally we want to understand if this is a shorted fan, a broken motherboard etc so anything about the failure that we can get out of these would be good. We do also wire the alerts up to the FPGA irq collector for smbus fun and profit

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Research direction

Start by locating the level-one diagnostics handling for FanPowerNotOk and the fan hotswap I2C and FPGA IRQ paths. Determine how to query the errant hotswap and expose its failure details; done means the next diagnostic level reports whether the fan or motherboard failure information is available.

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Tech stack
rust
Domain
embedded-iot
Issue type
Feature
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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
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Newbie friendliness
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