Public bug reported:

[Impact]
Just loading the necessary modules is not enough to get a working IPMI system 
interface (/dev/ipmi0) on Cavium ThunderX CRBs, and other ThunderX-based 
Gigabyte servers. You have to do some magic:

echo ipmi_ssif 0x12 >/sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-4/new_device
  or maybe:
echo ipmi_ssif 0x12 >/sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-4/new_device

Loading the modules should be enough.

[Test Case]
sudo modprobe ipmi_ssif
sudo modprobe ipmi_devintf

Do you have a working /dev/ipmi0?
sudo ipmitool lan print

[Regression Risk]
The driver being fixed is only used on ThunderX-based systems, and is currently 
not usable w/o the above manual config.

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: dann frazier (dannf)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: dann frazier (dannf)
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu Yakkety)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: dann frazier (dannf)
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu Zesty)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: dann frazier (dannf)
         Status: In Progress

** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Zesty)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => dann frazier (dannf)

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Zesty)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => dann frazier (dannf)

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Zesty)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Zesty)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Yakkety)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Yakkety)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Yakkety)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => dann frazier (dannf)

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Yakkety)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => dann frazier (dannf)

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Title:
  IPMI system interface on Cavium ThunderX systems requires manual
  config

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