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1Aspeed family boards (``*-bmc``, ``ast2500-evb``, ``ast2600-evb``)
2==================================================================
3
4The QEMU Aspeed machines model BMCs of various OpenPOWER systems and
5Aspeed evaluation boards. They are based on different releases of the
6Aspeed SoC : the AST2400 integrating an ARM926EJ-S CPU (400MHz), the
7AST2500 with an ARM1176JZS CPU (800MHz) and more recently the AST2600
8with dual cores ARM Cortex-A7 CPUs (1.2GHz).
9
10The SoC comes with RAM, Gigabit ethernet, USB, SD/MMC, USB, SPI, I2C,
11etc.
12
13AST2400 SoC based machines :
14
15- ``palmetto-bmc``         OpenPOWER Palmetto POWER8 BMC
16- ``quanta-q71l-bmc``      OpenBMC Quanta BMC
17
18AST2500 SoC based machines :
19
20- ``ast2500-evb``          Aspeed AST2500 Evaluation board
21- ``romulus-bmc``          OpenPOWER Romulus POWER9 BMC
22- ``witherspoon-bmc``      OpenPOWER Witherspoon POWER9 BMC
23- ``sonorapass-bmc``       OCP SonoraPass BMC
24- ``swift-bmc``            OpenPOWER Swift BMC POWER9
25
26AST2600 SoC based machines :
27
28- ``ast2600-evb``          Aspeed AST2600 Evaluation board (Cortex-A7)
29- ``tacoma-bmc``           OpenPOWER Witherspoon POWER9 AST2600 BMC
30
31Supported devices
32-----------------
33
34 * SMP (for the AST2600 Cortex-A7)
35 * Interrupt Controller (VIC)
36 * Timer Controller
37 * RTC Controller
38 * I2C Controller
39 * System Control Unit (SCU)
40 * SRAM mapping
41 * X-DMA Controller (basic interface)
42 * Static Memory Controller (SMC or FMC) - Only SPI Flash support
43 * SPI Memory Controller
44 * USB 2.0 Controller
45 * SD/MMC storage controllers
46 * SDRAM controller (dummy interface for basic settings and training)
47 * Watchdog Controller
48 * GPIO Controller (Master only)
49 * UART
50 * Ethernet controllers
51 * Front LEDs (PCA9552 on I2C bus)
52 * LPC Peripheral Controller (a subset of subdevices are supported)
53 * Hash/Crypto Engine (HACE) - Hash support only. TODO: HMAC and RSA
54
55
56Missing devices
57---------------
58
59 * Coprocessor support
60 * ADC (out of tree implementation)
61 * PWM and Fan Controller
62 * Slave GPIO Controller
63 * Super I/O Controller
64 * PCI-Express 1 Controller
65 * Graphic Display Controller
66 * PECI Controller
67 * MCTP Controller
68 * Mailbox Controller
69 * Virtual UART
70 * eSPI Controller
71 * I3C Controller
72
73Boot options
74------------
75
76The Aspeed machines can be started using the ``-kernel`` option to
77load a Linux kernel or from a firmware. Images can be downloaded from
78the OpenBMC jenkins :
79
80   https://jenkins.openbmc.org/job/ci-openbmc/lastSuccessfulBuild/distro=ubuntu,label=docker-builder
81
82or directly from the OpenBMC GitHub release repository :
83
84   https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/releases
85
86The image should be attached as an MTD drive. Run :
87
88.. code-block:: bash
89
90  $ qemu-system-arm -M romulus-bmc -nic user \
91	-drive file=obmc-phosphor-image-romulus.static.mtd,format=raw,if=mtd -nographic
92
93Options specific to Aspeed machines are :
94
95 * ``execute-in-place`` which emulates the boot from the CE0 flash
96   device by using the FMC controller to load the instructions, and
97   not simply from RAM. This takes a little longer.
98
99 * ``fmc-model`` to change the FMC Flash model. FW needs support for
100   the chip model to boot.
101
102 * ``spi-model`` to change the SPI Flash model.
103
104For instance, to start the ``ast2500-evb`` machine with a different
105FMC chip and a bigger (64M) SPI chip, use :
106
107.. code-block:: bash
108
109  -M ast2500-evb,fmc-model=mx25l25635e,spi-model=mx66u51235f
110