<html><body><p><font size="2">What is in the docs repo is all. There isn't a platform guide. I'll help you write one if you would like. I think the community would appreciate one. </font><br><br><font size="2"><br>Chris Austen<br>POWER Systems Enablement Manager <br></font><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=09BB0BABDFFAA1A28f9e8a93df938690918c09B@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for Patrick Venture ---06/07/2017 01:19:19 PM---Where is the new platform guide? In trying to get the qua"><font size="2" color="#424282">Patrick Venture ---06/07/2017 01:19:19 PM---Where is the new platform guide? In trying to get the quanta board running with everything; I've oft</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">Patrick Venture <venture@google.com></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">OpenBMC Maillist <openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">06/07/2017 01:19 PM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">New Platform Guide</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Sent by: </font><font size="2">"openbmc" <openbmc-bounces+austenc=us.ibm.com@lists.ozlabs.org></font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><br><font size="2">Where is the new platform guide?</font><br><br><font size="2">In trying to get the quanta board running with everything; I've often run into stumbling blocks when trying to define what packages are required and what need to be replaced with custom versions -- for things like sensors.</font><br><br><font size="2">Often I've been more or less reduced to checking the journal logs to see if something is saying why it's not running (settings.py was crashing which meant ipmid wouldn't start as an example). It took some source searching to figure out that x really depended on some object existing. Often those were in the service file, but not every time. And especially as OpenBMC is a moving target, this has been somewhat discouraging. Especially when the "supported" platforms all stem from the skeleton which still has its fingers in many places.</font><br><br><font size="2">That said, there are a lot of dependencies between packages, and things that you receive that maybe you don't want or need or aren't configured properly. For example, I don't know why or what the led-manager is doing but it's on my system running. I don't believe I configured it.</font><br><br><font size="2">If there is a guide, then I didn't see it and I apologize.</font><br><br><font size="2">If there isn't a guide -- I can start one; however, I won't really have to do it properly until some time in July. My approach would be, create a new platform that mimics Zaius but under a different name and see what it takes to output a similar image and what is really required -- although difficult for me to test. So maybe a new Quanta image from scratch and see what's running, and why and what things need to be configured.</font><br><br><font size="2">Thanks,</font><br><font size="2">Patrick</font><br><br><BR>
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