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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
17AST2500 SoC based machines :
18
19- ``ast2500-evb``          Aspeed AST2500 Evaluation board
20- ``romulus-bmc``          OpenPOWER Romulus POWER9 BMC
21- ``witherspoon-bmc``      OpenPOWER Witherspoon POWER9 BMC
22- ``sonorapass-bmc``       OCP SonoraPass BMC
23- ``swift-bmc``            OpenPOWER Swift BMC POWER9
24
25AST2600 SoC based machines :
26
27- ``ast2600-evb``          Aspeed AST2600 Evaluation board (Cortex A7)
28- ``tacoma-bmc``           OpenPOWER Witherspoon POWER9 AST2600 BMC
29
30Supported devices
31-----------------
32
33 * SMP (for the AST2600 Cortex-A7)
34 * Interrupt Controller (VIC)
35 * Timer Controller
36 * RTC Controller
37 * I2C Controller
38 * System Control Unit (SCU)
39 * SRAM mapping
40 * X-DMA Controller (basic interface)
41 * Static Memory Controller (SMC or FMC) - Only SPI Flash support
42 * SPI Memory Controller
43 * USB 2.0 Controller
44 * SD/MMC storage controllers
45 * SDRAM controller (dummy interface for basic settings and training)
46 * Watchdog Controller
47 * GPIO Controller (Master only)
48 * UART
49 * Ethernet controllers
50
51
52Missing devices
53---------------
54
55 * Coprocessor support
56 * ADC (out of tree implementation)
57 * PWM and Fan Controller
58 * LPC Bus Controller
59 * Slave GPIO Controller
60 * Super I/O Controller
61 * Hash/Crypto Engine
62 * PCI-Express 1 Controller
63 * Graphic Display Controller
64 * PECI Controller
65 * MCTP Controller
66 * Mailbox Controller
67 * Virtual UART
68 * eSPI Controller
69 * I3C Controller
70
71Boot options
72------------
73
74The Aspeed machines can be started using the -kernel option to load a
75Linux kernel or from a firmare image which can be downloaded from the
76OpenPOWER jenkins :
77
78   https://openpower.xyz/
79
80The image should be attached as an MTD drive. Run :
81
82.. code-block:: bash
83
84  $ qemu-system-arm -M romulus-bmc -nic user \
85	-drive file=flash-romulus,format=raw,if=mtd -nographic
86
87Options specific to Aspeed machines are :
88
89 * ``execute-in-place`` which emulates the boot from the CE0 flash
90   device by using the FMC controller to load the instructions, and
91   not simply from RAM. This takes a little longer.
92
93 * ``fmc-model`` to change the FMC Flash model. FW needs support for
94   the chip model to boot.
95
96 * ``spi-model`` to change the SPI Flash model.
97
98For instance, to start the ``ast2500-evb`` machine with a different
99FMC chip and a bigger (64M) SPI chip, use :
100
101.. code-block:: bash
102
103  -M ast2500-evb,fmc-model=mx25l25635e,spi-model=mx66u51235f
104