OT: Crowdfunding to port OpenBMC to Asus KGPE-D16

[Timothy Pearson]

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On 02/27/2017 03:24 PM, Rick Altherr wrote:
> I'm assuming the core work of booting u-boot and linux on the BMC used
> on KGPE-D16 (AST2300?) is usable by both projects.

Exactly.

I'll gladly support
> bringup on a new SoC as long as the patches are headed to mainline linux
> and u-boot.

This would be part of the third stretch goal (IBM OpenBMC support).  Any
of the stretch goals can be funded in any order, and you can also
earmark a contribution specifically for any of the stretch goal(s) you
may be interested in.

To keep the overall costs reasonable and to allow adapting to the needs
of the community, the base goal consists of a port of the Facebook
OpenBMC system, released as a buildable source tree, and includes
creation and upstreaming of the necessary changes to coreboot and
flashrom.  More advanced features are then implemented as stretch goals,
including the work of trying to upstream the drivers into Linux and u-boot.

> AFAIK, the only limit on whether IBM OpenBMC can be used is the amount
> of RAM and flash available.  My work on a Quanta Q71L has it booting on
> an AST2400 with 128MB of RAM and 32MB of flash.

The KGPE-D16 is even more limited than that.  Even making Facebook's
OpenBMC function on an unmodified KGPE-D16 will be an interesting challenge.

> My concerns with contributing to the campaign are that I don't
> understand what work is planned and where those changes will end up.

I hope this has helped clarify some.  If you have any other questions
please feel free to ask!

Timothy Pearson
Raptor Engineering
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