Re: Recommendations for development platforms for the ASPEED AST2500 & AST2600?

[Andrew Jeffery]

Hi Bruce

On Wed, 16 Oct 2019, at 05:14, Bruce Mitchell wrote:
>  
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I am Bruce Mitchell and I work for Phoenix Technologies Ltd. as a BMC 
> firmware Engineer.
> 
> Phoenix Technologies Ltd. is developing an OpenBMC 
> (https://www.openbmc.org/ , not the Facebook flavor) product.

FYI, the projects have united (and the result lives under the Linux Foundation).
> 
> Our intent is also to be a valuable contributing member to the OpenBMC project.

Great! Looking forward to your contributions.

> 
> 
> We will be initially developing for the ASPEED Technology Inc. AST2500 
> followed by the AST2600 BMC SoC.
> 
> Do you have any suggestion of available hardware development platforms 
> for the ASPEED AST2500 & AST2600?

Unfortunately there isn't anything that is both cheap and easy to acquire that
I'm aware of. Hopefully others can chime in if they know things that I don't, but
this is an issue that's cropped up in the past and hasn't been resolved.

I think the cheapest anyone has found was a system (motherboard, cheap x86-64
CPU and RAM) that was about $800AU, but I'd have to dig out the details on what
that was exactly (and it may have been AST2400-based).

Sorry I don't have better answers.

Andrew