Recommendations for development platforms for the ASPEED AST2500 & AST2600?

Recommendations for development platforms for the ASPEED AST2500 & AST2600?

[Bruce Mitchell]

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Hello,

I am Bruce Mitchell and I work for Phoenix Technologies Ltd. as a BMC firmware Engineer.
Phoenix Technologies Ltd. is developing an OpenBMC (https://www.openbmc.org/ , not the Facebook flavor) product.
Our intent is also to be a valuable contributing member to the OpenBMC project.

We will be initially developing for the ASPEED Technology Inc. AST2500 followed by the AST2600 BMC SoC.
Do you have any suggestion of available hardware development platforms for the ASPEED AST2500 & AST2600?


Thank you very much for your time and support.

--
Bruce Mitchell
BMC Engineer
503-567-3032 direct
bruce_mitchell@phoenix.com

Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
15266 NW Greenbrier Pkwy
Beaverton, OR 97006 USA
503-567-3000 main

www.phoenix.com

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Re: Recommendations for development platforms for the ASPEED AST2500 & AST2600?

[Andrew Jeffery]

Hi Bruce

On Wed, 16 Oct 2019, at 05:14, Bruce Mitchell wrote:
>  
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I am Bruce Mitchell and I work for Phoenix Technologies Ltd. as a BMC 
> firmware Engineer.
> 
> Phoenix Technologies Ltd. is developing an OpenBMC 
> (https://www.openbmc.org/ , not the Facebook flavor) product.

FYI, the projects have united (and the result lives under the Linux Foundation).
> 
> Our intent is also to be a valuable contributing member to the OpenBMC project.

Great! Looking forward to your contributions.

> 
> 
> We will be initially developing for the ASPEED Technology Inc. AST2500 
> followed by the AST2600 BMC SoC.
> 
> Do you have any suggestion of available hardware development platforms 
> for the ASPEED AST2500 & AST2600?

Unfortunately there isn't anything that is both cheap and easy to acquire that
I'm aware of. Hopefully others can chime in if they know things that I don't, but
this is an issue that's cropped up in the past and hasn't been resolved.

I think the cheapest anyone has found was a system (motherboard, cheap x86-64
CPU and RAM) that was about $800AU, but I'd have to dig out the details on what
that was exactly (and it may have been AST2400-based).

Sorry I don't have better answers.

Andrew

Re: Recommendations for development platforms for the ASPEED AST2500 & AST2600?

[krtaylor]

On 10/15/19 1:44 PM, Bruce Mitchell wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am Bruce Mitchell and I work for Phoenix Technologies Ltd. as a BMC 
> firmware Engineer.
> 
> Phoenix Technologies Ltd. is developing an OpenBMC 
> (https://www.openbmc.org/ , not the Facebook flavor) product.
> 
> Our intent is also to be a valuable contributing member to the OpenBMC 
> project.

Welcome Bruce! Please make sure you get added to your company CCLA, and 
shoot me a new version so I can keep it current.

Thanks!

Kurt Taylor (krtaylor)

> We will be initially developing for the ASPEED Technology Inc. AST2500 
> followed by the AST2600 BMC SoC.
> 
> Do you have any suggestion of available hardware development platforms 
> for the ASPEED AST2500 & AST2600?
> 
> Thank you very much for your time and support.
> 
> --
> 
> Bruce Mitchell
> 
> BMC Engineer
> 
> 503-567-3032 direct
> 
> bruce_mitchell@phoenix.com
> 
> Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
> 
> 15266 NW Greenbrier Pkwy
> 
> Beaverton, OR 97006 USA
> 
> 503-567-3000 main
> 
> www.phoenix.com
> 

Re: Recommendations for development platforms for the ASPEED AST2500 & AST2600?

[Oskar Senft]

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Hi Bruce

I've had good experience with the TYAN S7106. We still need to upstream the
DTS for the board, though (sorry, upstreaming is hard).

You might also want to get in touch with TYAN to see if they can share
further information on the board with you for your work.

Whatever platform you choose you'd want information on the BMC's I/O pin
configuration and potentially on how it's connected to the PCH.

Oskar.

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 6:47 PM Bruce Mitchell <Bruce_Mitchell@phoenix.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>
> I am Bruce Mitchell and I work for Phoenix Technologies Ltd. as a BMC
> firmware Engineer.
>
> Phoenix Technologies Ltd. is developing an OpenBMC (
> https://www.openbmc.org/ , not the Facebook flavor) product.
>
> Our intent is also to be a valuable contributing member to the OpenBMC
> project.
>
>
>
> We will be initially developing for the ASPEED Technology Inc. AST2500
> followed by the AST2600 BMC SoC.
>
> Do you have any suggestion of available hardware development platforms for
> the ASPEED AST2500 & AST2600?
>
>
>
>
>
> Thank you very much for your time and support.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Bruce Mitchell
>
> BMC Engineer
>
> 503-567-3032 <(503)%20567-3032> direct
>
> bruce_mitchell@phoenix.com
>
>
>
> Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
>
> 15266 NW Greenbrier Pkwy
>
> Beaverton, OR 97006 USA
>
> 503-567-3000 <(503)%20567-3000> main
>
>
>
> www.phoenix.com
>

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Re: Recommendations for development platforms for the ASPEED AST2500 & AST2600?

[Andrew Jeffery]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, at 02:14, Oskar Senft wrote:
> Hi Bruce
> 
> I've had good experience with the TYAN S7106. We still need to upstream 
> the DTS for the board, though (sorry, upstreaming is hard).

How can we help with upstreaming your changes? Its better that they're there
than out of tree / inaccessible to others.

Andrew

Re: Recommendations for development platforms for the ASPEED AST2500 & AST2600?

[Oskar Senft]

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It's basically just the DTS. TYAN tried to upstream it and got a number of
good review responses. However, I didn't have the time (yet) to go back and
work on them.

I'll see that I do that soon.

Thanks for offering to help! I'll get back to you for feedback.

Oskar.

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 7:19 PM Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, at 02:14, Oskar Senft wrote:
> > Hi Bruce
> >
> > I've had good experience with the TYAN S7106. We still need to upstream
> > the DTS for the board, though (sorry, upstreaming is hard).
>
> How can we help with upstreaming your changes? Its better that they're
> there
> than out of tree / inaccessible to others.
>
> Andrew
>

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Re: Re: Recommendations for development platforms for the ASPEED AST2500 & AST2600?

[Michael Richardson]

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I looked around the Internet for new and used Tyan S7106 systems.
Not a lot of choices: building a system with a board (new or used) looks like
a $3K expenditure, about the same cost as the portwell system, which is out of
stock for 16-18 weeks.
So it's QEMU emulation for awhile for me :-)

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