OpenBMC port to AST2400 on Piestewa Peak CRB?

Hello

Does anybody have plans to port or have already ported OpenBMC to the AST2400 BMC used on the Intel Piestewa Peak Customer Reference Board?

Dave

Hi Dave,

Currently, the code tree at http://github.com/openbmc/openbmc only supports full functionality on Power8 systems. The AST2400 itself is host-processor agnostic, so it probably wouldn't be much trouble to get it running on that board. It would be the userspace apps that interact with the Host that would need work.

Facebook has a different code stack that does support Intel processors. I do not know how close any of their systems would be to this reference board.

We are wanting to work with anyone who might be interested in extending our code-base to support non-Power architectures, but it just isn't my team's focus. We have been discussing with Facebook on how to get parts of the code stack common between our two efforts. Our main areas of focus now have been on Linux kernel and u-boot support.

Cc'd Teddy @ Facebook so he can forward this around over there.

Patrick Williams

Hi Dave,

Facebook has been developing OpenBMC for several Intel host CPU boards using AST2400. But not for Piestewa Peak Customer Reference board. As Patrick mentioned, "The AST2400 itself is host-processor agnostic, so it probably wouldn't be much trouble to get it running on that board."

Facebook OpenBMC repo is at http://github.com/facebook/openbmc. We are working with IBM team to have common Linux kernel and u-boot.

Thx,
Tian

Hi David, is that something you would be interested in helping to develop?

Chris Austen
POWER Systems Enablement Manager
(512) 286-5184 (T/L: 363-5184)

From: Tian Fang <[email protected]>
To: Patrick Williams <[email protected]>, David Müller (ELSOFT AG)
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Cc: [email protected], Teddy Reed <[email protected]>
Date: 07/13/2016 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: OpenBMC port to AST2400 on Piestewa Peak CRB?
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Hi Dave,

Facebook has been developing OpenBMC for several Intel host CPU boards using AST2400. But not for Piestewa Peak Customer Reference board. As Patrick mentioned, "The AST2400 itself is
host-processor agnostic, so it probably wouldn't be much trouble to get it running on that board."

Facebook OpenBMC repo is at http://github.com/facebook/openbmc. We are working with IBM team to have common Linux kernel and u-boot.

Thx,
Tian

On 07/13/2016 09:27 AM, Patrick Williams wrote:
Hi Dave,

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 02:38:15PM +0200, David Müller (ELSOFT AG) wrote:

Hello

Does anybody have plans to port or have already ported OpenBMC to the
AST2400 BMC used on the Intel Piestewa Peak Customer Reference Board?

Dave

Currently, the code tree at http://github.com/openbmc/openbmc only supports full functionality on Power8 systems. The AST2400 itself is host-processor agnostic, so it probably wouldn't be much trouble to get
it running on that board. It would be the userspace apps that interact
with the Host that would need work.

Facebook has a different code stack that does support Intel processors.
I do not know how close any of their systems would be to this reference
board.

We are wanting to work with anyone who might be interested in extending
our code-base to support non-Power architectures, but it just isn't my
team's focus. We have been discussing with Facebook on how to get parts
of the code stack common between our two efforts. Our main areas of focus now have been on Linux kernel and u-boot support.

Cc'd Teddy @ Facebook so he can forward this around over there.

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Hi Chris

Yes.

Some background:

We are currently designing a Intel Broadwell + AST2500 based system, for which we tinkered with the idea of using OpenBMC.

My idea was to play around with OpenBMC on the Intel CRB to gain some experience as long as our own hardware is not ready. Seems like it is not as simple as I hoped.

Dave