OpenBMC Starting Point

[Samuel Herts]

We got the Hello World to work perfectly, thank you for the assistance! How
would we now go about doing the exact same thing, but hardware implemented?
By that, I mean actually running the phosphor state manager modified module
on the physical BMC chip? How do we install the OpenBMC sdk? Also, is there
a method to read from the computer's BIOS chip from this modified state
manager?



On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 11:52 AM Andrew Geissler <geissonator at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Jan 20, 2020, at 11:03 AM, Samuel Herts <sdherts at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you!
> I have a supermicro X9 with ast2400 BMC chip. How would we go about
> installing it? openBMC onto it? We currently have a fresh install of Ubuntu
> LTS on it, and nothing else.
>
>
> The only AST2400 config I’m familiar with is our Palmetto.
> You could start with that machine and tweak it for yours.
>
> https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/blob/master/meta-ibm/meta-palmetto/conf/machine/palmetto.conf
>
>
> In terms of the development virtual machine. I keep running into an issue
> when trying to wget the sdk.
> Specifically, this line: wget
> https://openpower.xyz/job/openbmc-build-sdk/distro=ubuntu,target=romulus/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/deploy/sdk/oecore-x86_64-arm1176jzs-toolchain-nodistro.0.sh
>  After running that inside the romulus emulator, it runs out of space and
> won't complete the download. Does this mean I need to either increase the
> storage for the romulus, or am I simply installing it in the wrong place,
> and instead need to wget that into the regular VM?
>
>
> The SDK is not meant to be downloaded to the actual OpenBMC
> system. I’t meant to be downloaded to your development system.
> You can then use it to build OpenBMC software that you then copy
> over to your OpenBMC and run.
>
> Apologies for all the questions, I am doing as much research as I can, and
> this mailing list seems to be the largest wealth of knowledge I have
> available.
>
> --Sam
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 1:57 AM Michael Richardson <mcr at sandelman.ca>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Samuel Herts <sdherts at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     > I am currently working on getting a working OpenBMC test environment
>>     > up and running. I am using VirtualBox and the github Development
>>     > Environment tutorial. I had a couple questions regarding how to make
>>     > our own modules. Would it be possible to upload files to the bmc on
>>     > the virtual server?
>>
>> You can do that.
>> The disk is rather small by default.
>> If you are using VirtualBox, you may be able to use the vboxfs file
>> system to
>> mount the host. That might require adding modules to the kernel.
>>
>>     > And would I be able to make a script which can read text off of that
>>     > file inside the bmc chip?
>>
>>     > I have a physical server which I am not using yet, would I be able
>> to
>>     > install openbmc and the scripts and insert the file onto the actual
>>     > bmc chip, and eventually read from that file?
>>
>> Maybe. What server do you have?
>>
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>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Samuel Herts
>
>
>

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Sincerely,
Samuel Herts
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