Porting OpenBMC to Raspberry PI 3.

[Chris Austen]

As you can see there has been a desire for over a year to have it
supported.  Raspberrypi supported is interesting since it allows for an
easy reference board to develop and learn from.  It provides other
communities to get involved and it presents a very cheap model for test
automation.  The developers talking on that issue had other systems and
timelines that got in the way of providing the community a cheap usable
hardware reference.

As you yourself discovered, OpenBMC kernel development can be difficult
without system level specs.  With the Pi you remove the problem.



Chris Austen
POWER Systems Enablement Manager
(512) 286-5184 (T/L: 363-5184)

Javier Romero <xavinux at gmail.com> wrote on 09/22/2017 01:56:45 PM:

> From: Javier Romero <xavinux at gmail.com>
> To: Chris Austen <austenc at us.ibm.com>
> Cc: openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org
> Date: 09/22/2017 01:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Porting OpenBMC to Raspberry PI 3.
>
> Seems that obmc on Raspberry PI is not a primary use case...
>
> https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/399
>
> Javier Romero
> E-mail: xavinux at gmail.com
> Skype: xavinux
>
> 2017-09-22 13:47 GMT-03:00 Javier Romero <xavinux at gmail.com>:
> Chris,

> Thank you for your answer. I'll start working on those points
you'vesuggested.

> Regards,
>

>
> Javier Romero
> E-mail: xavinux at gmail.com
> Skype: xavinux
>
> 2017-09-22 13:33 GMT-03:00 Chris Austen <austenc at us.ibm.com>:
>
> Chris Austen
>
> "openbmc" <openbmc-bounces+austenc=us.ibm.com at lists.ozlabs.org>
> wrote on 09/22/2017 10:49:54 AM:
>
> > From: Javier Romero <xavinux at gmail.com>
> > To: openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org
> > Date: 09/22/2017 10:50 AM
> > Subject: Porting OpenBMC to Raspberry PI 3.
> > Sent by: "openbmc" <openbmc-bounces
+austenc=us.ibm.com at lists.ozlabs.org>
> >
> > Hello,
>
> > Have a Raspberry PI 3 and seems that could be useful to port OpenBMC
> > to this device.
>
> > Suggestions on how to start working with this will be welcome.
>
>
> before anything, make sure you have successfully created a build
> https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc#setting-up-your-openbmc-project
> Target Palmetto
>
> Then build the simulator https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc#setting-
> up-your-openbmc-project
>
> Then run the simulator https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc#setting-
> up-your-openbmc-project
>
>
> Once that is done Target a Romulus for build/simulation.  You will
> notice Palmetto is built from ast-2400 and Romulus is ast-2500
> You should notice some layers change between the two.  That gives
> you a base framework.  Next, and this is where no one has done work
> on the team...
>
> I would try to build an online example of using yocto for raspberry
> images.  Get that to work.  This step has nothing to do with
> OpenBMC.  It has to do about learning how to build a working
> raspberrypi image.
>
> Once you have done that, the next and most difficult thing...
> merging the two.  document everything in a blog post (maybe your
> userid in github) and that will let people see what you are doing
> and find helpful hints.
>
>
>
> > Best Regards,
> >
> >
> >
>
> > Javier Romero
> > E-mail: xavinux at gmail.com
> > Skype: xavinux
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