On Jan 31, 2020, at 11:15 AM, Samuel Herts <sdherts@gmail.com> = wrote:

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?

You would want = to use an SDK that you=E2=80=99ve built for your BMC hardware.

bitbake -c = populate_sdk obmc-phosphor-image

You=E2=80=99d = then use that SDK the same way you used it for Hello World

and then you = would scp the compiled binary to your BMC hardware.

If your bmc hardware is similar to the Romulus hardware then = you

could just scp the binary you generated for Hello World = over

to your hardware.

Also, is there a method to read from the computer's BIOS chip = from this modified state manager?

The BIOS is pretty dependent on the system. = Something like this should

list all firmware images on your = system, you could then introspect them

to figure out your BIOS = and the appropriate D-Bus calls to read them

from an = application:

busctl call = xyz.openbmc_project.ObjectMapper /xyz/openbmc_project/object_mapper = xyz.openbmc_project.ObjectMapper GetSubTreePaths sias = "/xyz/openbmc_project/software" 0 1 = xyz.openbmc_project.Software.Version

Andrew

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

On Jan = 20, 2020, at 11:03 AM, Samuel Herts <sdherts@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=E2=80=99m 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-pa= lmetto/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=3Dubuntu,tar= get=3Dromulus/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/deploy/sdk/oecore-x86_64-arm117= 6jzs-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=E2=80=99t 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@sandelman.ca> wrote:

Samuel Herts <sdherts@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