Add new machine

[Tiju Jacob]

Thanks Andrew for the info. 

Hi Patrick/Brad,

Are there plans to pull facebook's OpenBMC to this repo. 
Can you throw some light on this. I'm not sure how to proceed.

Thanks and Regards,
Tiju

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Jeffery [mailto:andrew at aj.id.au] 
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2016 5:36 PM
To: Tiju Jacob <Tiju.Jacob at flextronics.com>; Patrick Williams <patrick at stwcx.xyz>; Brad Bishop <bradleyb at fuzziesquirrel.com>
Cc: openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Add new machine

Hi Tiju,

On Thu, 2016-11-10 at 21:08 +0000, Tiju Jacob wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> We have a new machine made and most of the code is leveraged from 
> Wedge100.

>  I would like to submit code back to Openbmc git hub.

Great!

We have been working with Facebook to try consolidate efforts, as this OpenBMC project (https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/) is not quite the same* as Facebook's OpenBMC (https://github.com/facebook/openbmc/)
where Wedge100 can be found. 

Regarding submitting code, OpenBMC's presence on github is primarily for distribution and issue tracking. We're using Gerrit to manage patches for OpenBMC-owned projects:

https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/#/q/status:open


> I would like to create a new machine like ‘meta-wedge100’ with most of 
> the references back to wedge100 and keep only the changes in the new 
> machine directory.
>  
> Could someone please suggest how to go about it? Also, is there a 
> standard step by step method by which we can achieve this?

I'm one of the kernel/qemu hackers on the project so Yocto and its layers aren't really my area of knowledge, but I expect we would have to pull Facebook's layers into our openbmc/openbmc repo for you to build on. I don't know if that's something we would do: Patrick and Brad (now in To:) might be able to help you out here.

Cheers,

Andrew

>  
> Thanks and Regards,
> Tiju
>  

* We're working primarily on enabling OpenPOWER machines with an open source BMC. We happen to use the same SoC series (AST2400/AST2500) as Facebook, so there's a lot of cross-over in u-boot/Linux but the userspace is fairly different.

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