Query on image deployment on ASPEED board

[Arjun Padmanabhan]

Hi Joel,

> If you have a flash programmer available you can put the palmetto-flash image on there. I recommend taking a back up of the flash in case it does not work.

Netboot with tftp is for an emulator or we can netboot with tftp from board itself?
I don’t have a flash programmer. If I want to boot the image from ASPEED board, I would be needing one?
Any other way is there to boot the image from board?

Thanks and Regards
Arjun Padmanabhan
Software Design Engineer
Microsemi Storage Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.



-----Original Message-----
From: joel.stan at gmail.com [mailto:joel.stan at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Joel Stanley
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 10:36 AM
To: Arjun Padmanabhan
Cc: openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org; Balaji Marimuthu
Subject: Re: Query on image deployment on ASPEED board

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On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Arjun Padmanabhan <arjun.padmanabhan at microsemi.com> wrote:
> Hi Joel,
>
> Thanks for reply.
>
>> Is this an AST2400 EDK?
> Its' an AST 2400 evaluation board.
>
>> I recommend building on modern Ubuntu or Fedora machine.
> I am using CENT OS 6.6 to build images for openbmc. Is it recommended?

No. I would never recommend anyone put themselves through that. But it should work; one of the teams working on OpenBMC uses RHEL 6.4 to do builds.

>> Once you have an image built in openbmc/build/tmp/deploy/images, you can netboot it with tftp.
> Should I need a flash programmer to flash image onto ASPEED board? If I want to boot the image from ASPEED board, how should I proceed? Is there a GUI available for the image of ASPEED board?

There is no GUI.

If you have a flash programmer available you can put the palmetto-flash image on there. I recommend taking a back up of the flash in case it does not work.

You can either build the Palmetto image yourself, or use one from our continuous integration server here:

https://openpower.xyz/job/openbmc-build/distro=ubuntu,target=palmetto/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/images/palmetto/

It produces output on UART5 at 115200 baud. On my ast2500-evb that connector is labeled DEBUG UART.

Cheers,

Joel