Off-the-shelf platforms for OpenBMC

[Feng Xie]

Hi Sai and Derek,

         Thanks a lot for the quick response! I will evaluate all the three products you suggested. 

Feng

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Tsai <dstsai704 at gmail.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 9:25 PM
To: Sai Dasari <sdasari at fb.com>; Feng Xie <Feng_Xie2 at jabil.com>; OpenBMC Maillist <openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: Off-the-shelf platforms for OpenBMC

Just curious if anyone has tried the Whitebox:
https://www.serversdirect.com/Servers/id-R1560/R1560_-_WHITEBOX_OPEN_1U_4_Bay

Seems to be a better value than Portwell's Neptune.

Thanks,
Derek

On 10/10/18, 1:53 PM, "openbmc on behalf of Sai Dasari" <openbmc-bounces+derek.tsai=jin-tsai.com at lists.ozlabs.org on behalf of sdasari at fb.com> wrote:

        
              I am new to OpenBMC. I want to try OpenBMC on some off-the-shelf hardware platforms. Can anybody recommend some products (with development toolkits)? Thanks in advance!
    Welcome Feng to OpenBMC community! 
    
    I would start trying to get an evaluation kit by contacting BMC SoC Vendor e.g. https://www.aspeedtech.com/products.php?fPath=20&rId=440
    If you plan to work on host (BIOS/UEFI)<->BMC interactions, recommend another off-the-shelf product that has COMe connector to plug-in host processor e.g. @ http://portwell.com/solutions/pdf/Portwell-Neptune-Alpha-OpenBMC-Development-Kit.pdf