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

[Andrew Jeffery]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, at 02:06, Bruce Mitchell wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
> 
> > 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).
> 
> It seems the people at American Portwell Technology do not actually know that
> When I enquired about their Neptune Alpha OpenBMC development kit
> https://portwell.com/solutions/openBMC.php
> 
> > > 
> > > 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).
> 
> Easily affordable is desirable, but easy to acquire is of more 
> importance presently.
>

Okay. Maybe browse through the list of supported machines then? Unfortunately
there's no canonical list, it's more a matter of looking through each OEM's meta
layer at what machines are supported that suit your needs. Currently we support
various x86-64, ARM and POWER hosts.

Hopefully others have better suggestions though :)

Andrew