Hello to OpenBMC Team

[Garrett, Mike (HPE Server Firmware)]

Hi Brad,

Our thinking is to set up public forks "close to home" that we can work rapidly in and simultaneously work to upstream patches for U-boot, Linux, and OpenBMC to the main repos.  The forks are currently unmodified but that will change soon as we start moving our mods out of our private repos.

I should be clear that the DL360s we are using are modified from the off-the-self HPE Gen10 servers because of our silicon root of trust technology.  The CI system that Jean-Marie has set up is one of these modified systems.

Thanks,

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Bishop [mailto:bradleyb at fuzziesquirrel.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 2:24 PM
To: Garrett, Mike (HPE Server Firmware) <mike.garrett at hpe.com>; openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Shaffer, Scott <scott.shaffer at hpe.com>; Verdun, Jean-Marie <jean-marie.verdun at hpe.com>; Cisneros, Jorge (George) <jorge.cisneros at hpe.com>; Rodgers, Renee <renee.rodgers at hpe.com>; Chung, John (TWN iLO) <john.chung at hpe.com>; Chen, Gilbert <gilbert.chen at hpe.com>; Newman, Edward (iLO Firmware) <edward.newman at hpe.com>
Subject: Re: Hello to OpenBMC Team

On Tue, 2020-06-02 at 20:56 +0000, Garrett, Mike (HPE Server Firmware)
wrote:
> Hello OpenBMC team,
> 
> My name is Mike Garrett and I work with a team at Hewlett Packard

Welcome Mike and HPE.


> Enterprise creating a port of OpenBMC on our server hardware.  We have 
> just signed the CCLA (attached) and uploaded it.  We look forward to 
> working with the OpenBMC community.

Likewise!

> 
> To introduce myself, I am a firmware architect in HPE's compute group 
> with a background in BIOS and BMC firmware.  There will be a few other 
> folks on our team working with me, all with BMC development 
> experience.
> 
> The team has created a port of OpenBMC for our DL360 2-socket 1U rack 
> server that runs in place of our iLO 5 firmware.

Is this https://github.com/HewlettPackard/openbmc?  Thanks for leaving the attribution to the upstream project ("forked from openbmc/openbmc").

> This has been shown as a proof of concept at a few venues including 
> most recently the OCP Virtual Summit a couple of weeks ago.  Jean- 
> Marie Verdun has used this proof of concept as the underlying hardware 
> for an Open Source Firmware CI system.  We hope to the upstream the 
> OpenBMC work soon.

Awesome!

> 
> I believe the next request is to ask for team members to be added to 
> the gerrit system?

All you need to log in to Gerrit and submit code is a github account.

To have your code automatically tested by the CI system, you do need to be on an ACL - I'll set that up as soon as you log into gerrit.

thx - brad