@dexter well this is nice to see again, home sweet home in the Talos II bootloader - with a FreeBSD ISO installer ...
Left: OpenBMC interface w/ iKVM
Right: standard term via SSH to BMC and "obmc-console-client"
14.2 is installing now, no surprises. tomorrow, more fun!
Even #NVIDIA Has Jumped Big On The #OpenSource #OpenBMC Train
Next is "OpenBMC - The state of multi-host platform support" by Oliver Brewka
Multi-host in this context means having a single BMC managing multiple host nodes.
First multi-host system Yosemite appeared in 2015; the platform support was maintained in Meta-OpenBMC, and for the latest version it migrated to LF-OpenBMC.
One of the challenges was to go from a static to a dynamic design: the 1<->1 relation is broken, and the number of hosts might change (empty node slot). Changing the design in OpenBMC without breaking the many single-host platforms was the hard part.
As of lately, multi-host has been getting more attention in OpenBMC; Aspeed announced new multi-host capabilities for their next BMC SoC, for example.
Oliver says that multi-host in OpenBMC will improve the design, getting rid of much hard-coding, and getting closer the Redfish specification.
Tom takes over to talk about the firmware update side of the AMC with OpenBMC.
At NVIDIA, they have strong KPIs for firmware update performance and reliability, while still using standard, PLDM type 5 firmware update with Redfish.
Thanks to tremendous help from @zev & @arj I’ve managed to re-flash BMC. I almost succeeded with chain loaded openbmc to burn FW with amazing https://github.com/amboar/culvert, but accidentally fried UART on BMC. While I was looking for VGA→HDMI adapter in local groups to boot from USB pen drive, one person suggested to try to boot using PXE (mobo POSTed). And after some unpleasant time figuring out right set of pxe bootloaders it booted and I reflashed stock FW! #linux #bmc #openbmc #devops #hardware
Chipping away at some of the #OpenBMC kernel backlog ... linux-aspeed now integrates v6.6.16
Lots of Open Source #Firmware to discover at #FOSDEM! 🥳
Come to our stand in building K, level 2 (top entrance).
We will show you @coreboot, #LinuxBoot, #oreboot, u-bmc, #OpenBMC and lots more. ✨👩💻✨
And some #RISCV of course. 🙂
Espechally since I've yet to see #OpenBMC-powered #Servers or #Workstations [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBMC ] on the market since manfacturers are too busy pushing their own #BMC-based #managment solutions and sell #DLC's aka. #Licenses to nickel and dime customers for already implemented and installed features like a proper #iKVM [at least #Dell does so with their #iDRAC9] ....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface#Baseboard_management_controller
The Open Source Firmware Foundation (https://osfw.foundation) invited to their fall community hackathon in #bochum.
It's #hackathon time: day 2.
Coffee machine is at the ready. Cold caffeinated beverages as well.
A lot of people brought #hardware to hack on. Yesterday people discussed not only technical details, but also strategies and politics to drive Open Source #Firmware forward on various popular architectures like x86, RISC-V and ARM for hosts and BMC.
AST2700 BMC vendor tree is published:
https://github.com/AspeedTech-BMC/linux/commits/aspeed-master-v6.1
Konstantin did a write-up of getting PLDM going over the MCTP KCS binding (DSP0254) between EDK2 and #OpenBMC https://github.com/Kostr/PLDM
Asus just pushed a patch to #OpenBMC adding bitbake metadata for their X4TF platform
Looks like Akamai will be contributing to upstream #openbmc. Good to see the community continuing to expand
There's a sense of satisfaction moderating AMI posts through to the OpenBMC list. I feel like we've succeeded
#OpenBMC 2.14 Apparently Released
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBMC-2.14-Released
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/phoronix/status/1658823742150066176
HPE is still making custom ASICs for its BMCs instead of buying off-the-shelf SoCs from Aspeed or Nuvoton.
So they had to do Linux enablement and upstreaming is ongoing.
#OpenBMC
Jean-Marie Verdun on bringing #OpenBMC in the HPE ProLiant server line.
Very nice first presentation by Erwan Velu on Open Source Firmware at the #OpenBMC meetup.
Withe the And launch of the hardware Operating Principles Manifesto. https://github.com/criteo/hardware-manifesto
#EverythingOpen I see all these new #OpenBMC projects and then look at my homelab, which seems like it'll be stuck with ancient AST2400/AST2500 chips forever.
