<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>Hi Patrick,<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Thanks for your response, I totally agree with above points. As I have SAMA5D27 lying arround and i wanted to explore/understand openbmc.<br></div><div> Also i have seen some people have implemented openbmc on beaglebone, raspberry pi, Freescale Processors.<br></div><div> As no one has tried porting openbmc with Atmel SAM series processor, I thought that i can give it a try to port openbmc on SAMA5D27,<br></div><div> Any pointer or document will be helpful. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks & Regards,<br></div><div>Nikhil Muley<br></div><div><br></div><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn" data-zbluepencil-ignore="true" data-sigid="58018000000014003"><div><br></div></div><div class="zmail_extra_hr" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; line-height: 0px;"><br></div><div class="zmail_extra" data-zbluepencil-ignore="true"><div><br></div><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1">---- On Wed, 05 Jan 2022 22:31:42 +0530 <b>Patrick Williams <patrick@stwcx.xyz></b> wrote ----<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0px;"><div>On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 04:40:52PM +0530, Nikhil V wrote: <br> <br>> Trying to implement openbmc on SAMA5D27 development board and to use secure boot feature provided by microchip. To make openbmc more secure. <br> <br>I don't have much help on your specific problem, but I think there is some <br>surprise in your use of this chip for a few reasons. <br> <br> - This isn't really a BMC-oriented chip and is likely missing hardware that <br> a BMC would typically have for interacting with the host processors. <br> <br> - The A5 core in this chip is probably slower than the AST2500 (or maybe in <br> the same ballpark) which is already a generation behind. <br> <br> - Aspeed has secure boot support also / already. <br> <br>This isn't to say that you might not be able to get the SAMA5D27 working as a <br>BMC-like device for your system, but the fact that nobody else has decided to <br>build a server around it would give me a bit of concern if it showed up in a <br>system design I was working on. <br> <br>-- <br>Patrick Williams <br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>