OpenBMC port to AST2400 on Piestewa Peak CRB?

OpenBMC port to AST2400 on Piestewa Peak CRB?

[David Müller (ELSOFT AG)]

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

Re: OpenBMC port to AST2400 on Piestewa Peak CRB?

[Patrick Williams]

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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.
-- 
Patrick Williams

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Re: OpenBMC port to AST2400 on Piestewa Peak CRB?

[Tian Fang]

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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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Re: OpenBMC port to AST2400 on Piestewa Peak CRB?

[Chris Austen]

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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 <tfang@fb.com>
To:	Patrick Williams <patrick@stwcx.xyz>, David Müller (ELSOFT AG)
            <d.mueller@elsoft.ch>
Cc:	openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org, Teddy Reed <teddy@prosauce.org>
Date:	07/13/2016 11:59 AM
Subject:	Re: OpenBMC port to AST2400 on Piestewa Peak CRB?
Sent by:	"openbmc" <openbmc-bounces+austenc=us.ibm.com@lists.ozlabs.org>



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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Re: OpenBMC port to AST2400 on Piestewa Peak CRB?

[David Müller (ELSOFT AG)]

Hi Chris

Chris Austen wrote:

> is that something you would be interested in helping to develop?

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