OpenBMC Development Kit

[jainmjo at gmail.com]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 1:52 AM Sai Dasari <sdasari at fb.com> wrote:

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> *From: *"jainmjo at gmail.com" <jainmjo at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 10:54 AM
> *To: *Sai Dasari <sdasari at fb.com>
> *Cc: *Openbmc <openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org>
> *Subject: *Re: OpenBMC Development Kit
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> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 10:50 PM Sai Dasari <sdasari at fb.com> wrote:
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> *From: *openbmc <openbmc-bounces+sdasari=fb.com at lists.ozlabs.org> on
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> *Date: *Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 8:26 AM
> *To: *Openbmc <openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org>
> *Subject: *OpenBMC Development Kit
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> Hi all,
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> My team at Flipkart is working on porting OpenBMC to our servers.
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> Jain, Welcome Flipkart to OpenBMC community project.
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> Thank you!
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> Do you recommend getting Portwell's Neptune Alpha OpenBMC dev kit to play
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> Hope you have taken a look at
> https://github.com/openbmc/docs/tree/master/development. Would suggest to
> try OpenBMC SDK using QEMU followed by few EVBs from BMC SoC vendors @
> https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/tree/master/meta-evb. Hope this helps!
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> Yes. I have already tried the SDK with QEMU. We use AST2500 based systems.
> By "AST2500 EVB", do you mean the Portwell kit or something else?
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> I meant EVBs provided by BMC Vendors (e.g. Aspeed and Nuvoton) and I
> suggest to check with those vendor for getting access to these EVBs.
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> Portwell Kit is designed based on AST2500 EVB and adds a COM-Express
> connector to connect host CPU processor. This will allow to test the
> communication path between hostCPU->BMC. Portwell kit will be useful in
> case you would like to test these host->BMC communication features. (e.g.
> UEFI->BMC, POST codes, error logging via SEL, ipmitool over KCS/LPC etc.).
> For getting access to this board you can contact portwell @
> http://portwell.com/solutions/openBMC.php.
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Ok. Got it.

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