OpenBMC on KGPE-D16, somebody has it working?

[Kinky Nekoboi]

Due to lib depenency hell i am not able to build openbmc myself atm.

Does somebody has openbmc working for there kgpe-d16 system and can
maybe send me a rom ?

Can i flash the module with a Programmer and testclip or only internally?

[Merlin Büge]

Hi,
> Due to lib depenency hell i am not able to build openbmc myself atm.

Are you building on Debian (9 or 10)?
> Does somebody has openbmc working for there kgpe-d16 system and can
> maybe send me a rom ?

I'll send you a separate email.
> Can i flash the module with a Programmer and testclip or only internally?

Yes, a SOIC16 testclip and an SPI programmer like the CH341a will work.

Merlin

[Kinky Nekoboi]

Debian 10.

Thats perfect i  have the nessary flashing tools.

Am 12.10.19 um 22:57 schrieb Merlin Büge:
> Hi,
> > Due to lib depenency hell i am not able to build openbmc myself atm.
>
> Are you building on Debian (9 or 10)?
> > Does somebody has openbmc working for there kgpe-d16 system and can
> > maybe send me a rom ?
>
> I'll send you a separate email.
> > Can i flash the module with a Programmer and testclip or only internally?
>
> Yes, a SOIC16 testclip and an SPI programmer like the CH341a will work.
>
> Merlin

[ron minnich]

If you like running systemd on your bmc, the minimum 60 seconds
openbmc takes to boot, the complex, fragile, and long time it takes to
build from source, and the openbmc stack's need for giant memory
footprint and lots of nvme, stop reading.

IF, OTOH, you like the idea of a very lightweight stack, which builds
in minutes not hours, and needs maybe 32M of memory to run, and boots
much faster, well, you might want to checkout u-bmc.

https://github.com/u-root/u-bmc

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 2:00 PM Kinky Nekoboi  wrote:
> Debian 10.
>
> Thats perfect i  have the nessary flashing tools.
>
> Am 12.10.19 um 22:57 schrieb Merlin Büge:
> > Hi,
> > > Due to lib depenency hell i am not able to build openbmc myself atm.
> >
> > Are you building on Debian (9 or 10)?
> > > Does somebody has openbmc working for there kgpe-d16 system and can
> > > maybe send me a rom ?
> >
> > I'll send you a separate email.
> > > Can i flash the module with a Programmer and testclip or only internally?
> >
> > Yes, a SOIC16 testclip and an SPI programmer like the CH341a will work.
> >
> > Merlin
>
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[Merlin Büge]

On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 22:11:02 -0700
ron minnich  wrote:
> If you like running systemd on your bmc, the minimum 60 seconds
> openbmc takes to boot, the complex, fragile, and long time it takes to
> build from source, and the openbmc stack's need for giant memory
> footprint and lots of nvme, stop reading.

I don't like that, but...
> IF, OTOH, you like the idea of a very lightweight stack, which builds
> in minutes not hours, and needs maybe 32M of memory to run, and boots
> much faster, well, you might want to checkout u-bmc.
>
> https://github.com/u-root/u-bmc

... as far as I can see, u-bmc doesn't support the AST2050 yet (the BMC
chip used by the KGPE-D16).

Merlin

[ron minnich]

On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 6:42 AM Merlin Büge  wrote:
> ... as far as I can see, u-bmc doesn't support the AST2050 yet (the BMC
> chip used by the KGPE-D16).

This is the kind of challenge people on this list live for :-)

The cool thing about u-bmc is that is has only about 1000 lines of
assembly. It turns on dram, loads linux from flash, starts it. It's
not u-boot, or coreboot, or anything. In fact it's a lot like
linuxbios v0.

ron

[Kinky Nekoboi]

This sounds promissing, and Out-ofband-managetment should be small and kiss.

Will take a look later but my first goal is to get the AST2500 to work
with any rom.

Hoping chinaman ships fast.

Am 13.10.19 um 07:11 schrieb ron minnich:
> If you like running systemd on your bmc, the minimum 60 seconds
> openbmc takes to boot, the complex, fragile, and long time it takes to
> build from source, and the openbmc stack's need for giant memory
> footprint and lots of nvme, stop reading.
>
> IF, OTOH, you like the idea of a very lightweight stack, which builds
> in minutes not hours, and needs maybe 32M of memory to run, and boots
> much faster, well, you might want to checkout u-bmc.
>
> https://github.com/u-root/u-bmc
>
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 2:00 PM Kinky Nekoboi  wrote:
> > Debian 10.
> >
> > Thats perfect i  have the nessary flashing tools.
> >
> > Am 12.10.19 um 22:57 schrieb Merlin Büge:
> > > Hi,
> > > > Due to lib depenency hell i am not able to build openbmc myself atm.
> > >
> > > Are you building on Debian (9 or 10)?
> > > > Does somebody has openbmc working for there kgpe-d16 system and can
> > > > maybe send me a rom ?
> > >
> > > I'll send you a separate email.
> > > > Can i flash the module with a Programmer and testclip or only internally?
> > >
> > > Yes, a SOIC16 testclip and an SPI programmer like the CH341a will work.
> > >
> > > Merlin
> >
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>
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