Documentation/Guidance in order to support another hardware

[Patrick Williams]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 10:40:59AM +0000, Hakim.Cherif at microchip.com wrote:
> I am evaluating how to make OpenBMC support one of our custom hardware.
> 
> I am completely new to OpenBMC and I struggle doing this.
> 
> Would you have any documentation ? Any guidance about how to do so ?

It isn't obvious what you're trying to accomplish.  Some possibilities:

1. You have an alternative to Aspeed AST2600 you want to propose as a
   BMC SOC.

2. You have an alternative to a host processor you want the BMC to
   manage.

3. You have a new system design based on an already supported SOC and
   host-processor.

If you are trying to do (1), you should look at meta-aspeed and
meta-nuvoton for examples.  You'll likely want to create a new EVB
reference in meta-evb.

If you are trying to do (2), we'll need to understand what custom
recipes you're trying to propose.  There generally isn't a lot of
chip-specific support that we put into openbmc recipes.

If you are trying to do (3), you should find lots of existing systems to
follow as a pattern.

-- 
Patrick Williams
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