Re: OpenBMC on Raspberry PI 3.

From: Javier Romero <xavinux@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
Cc: Yi TZ Li <shliyi@cn.ibm.com>,
	OpenBMC Maillist <openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: OpenBMC on Raspberry PI 3.
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 16:09:39 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEX+82KL+N5VCvo+LH20=1paTZvKo2M7PqdXk7=bFq7MdAGeSA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1507691159.5452.168.camel@aj.id.au>

> Great! I look forward to you helping us improve our documentation and
> on-boarding of contributors. It might be rocky but it should help those
> coming along in the future.

A starting point to start my contribution, so, how can I help on this?

Javier Romero
E-mail: xavinux@gmail.com
Skype: xavinux

2017-10-11 0:05 GMT-03:00 Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>:
> On Tue, 2017-10-10 at 11:01 -0300, Javier Romero wrote:
>> > Ah - so I don't think you've outlined why you picked OpenBMC for the
>> > job. Can you give us a quick run-down?
>>
>> I'm an individual contributor on the Open Compute Project and follow
>> the Hardware Management Group, OpenBMC is on their project scope and
>> sounds very interesting for me, so decide to participate and see if I
>> can be useful.
>
> Ah, nice. Good to have some background :)
>
>> >
>> > There are going to be easier projects out there than OpenBMC to cut
>> > your teeth with, but if you are keen to learn to program, feel you have
>> > the drive to do so and Yi is happy to help out with your interest in
>> > the Raspberry Pi then by all means stick around :)
>>
>> Have bought the Raspberry PI a few days ago, to start contibuting to
>> the OpenBMC project and try to make it work on the RPI. I can learn
>> what is needed on the way, and that is why I'm here and decide to
>> participate, to contribute while learning new things.
>
> Great! I look forward to you helping us improve our documentation and
> on-boarding of contributors. It might be rocky but it should help those
> coming along in the future.
>
>>  But if more
>> programming advanced knowledge is requiered to participate on the
>> OpsnBMC project, maybe I'll have to cut my teeth with other project as
>> you said.
>
> Play it by ear - I just wasn't sure what your motivations were. But
> since you're coming from the OCP background with an interest in
> hardware management, it makes sense to stick around here. As long as
> you get in touch when you get stuck we'll find someone to help answer
> your questions.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew