It's time to build Zephyr Kernel WG in OpenBMC.

[Doman, Jonathan]

On Sun, 2025-10-26 at 11:31 +0800, 王魁英(魁恩) wrote:
> Hi all,
> This is Kuiying(Kwin) Wang.  I am BMC Architecture of Alibaba Cloud
> and OpenBMC maintainer.
> We have finished the DDR-Less BMC chip which is the world's first
> LiteBMC runs OpenBMC FW.
> We have finished the Zephyr based OpenBMC runs on LiteBMC (DDR-less).
> I shared the whole idea and the practice in Alibaba Cloud at this
> OSFC.
> Both Zephyr and OpenBMC are the popular community. This marks the
> first intersection of these two areas. 
> OpenBMC could leverage Zephyr kernel expend into LiteBMC domain. 
> Now, It's time to build Zephyr Kernel WG in OpenBMC community. We can
> have a detail talking on the architure, implementation and its
> advantage/contribute to the AI server evolution. Especially in the
> DPU/GPU node domain area.
> 
> The Demos on Zephyr based OpenBMC:
> https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kwin-wang-427bb340_osfc-activity-
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> 
> The architecture on Zephyr based OpenBMC:
> https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kwin-wang-427bb340_osfc-activity-
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> p-7AiPxaMnSAbpDbQ2xjzY

Thank you for sharing Kwin. I watched the session and have some
questions: how do you compile and run each process/daemon as a zephyr
thread? how is the logic encoded in systemd unit files transferred to
zephyr (dependencies, etc.)? Any link to some source code in that area
would be nice.

> 
> Thanks,
> Kwin.