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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- ``supermicrox11-bmc``    Supermicro X11 BMC
18
19AST2500 SoC based machines :
20
21- ``ast2500-evb``          Aspeed AST2500 Evaluation board
22- ``romulus-bmc``          OpenPOWER Romulus POWER9 BMC
23- ``witherspoon-bmc``      OpenPOWER Witherspoon POWER9 BMC
24- ``sonorapass-bmc``       OCP SonoraPass BMC
25- ``fp5280g2-bmc``         Inspur FP5280G2 BMC
26- ``g220a-bmc``            Bytedance G220A BMC
27- ``yosemitev2-bmc``       Facebook YosemiteV2 BMC
28- ``tiogapass-bmc``        Facebook Tiogapass BMC
29
30AST2600 SoC based machines :
31
32- ``ast2600-evb``          Aspeed AST2600 Evaluation board (Cortex-A7)
33- ``tacoma-bmc``           OpenPOWER Witherspoon POWER9 AST2600 BMC
34- ``rainier-bmc``          IBM Rainier POWER10 BMC
35- ``fuji-bmc``             Facebook Fuji BMC
36- ``bletchley-bmc``        Facebook Bletchley BMC
37- ``fby35-bmc``            Facebook fby35 BMC
38- ``qcom-dc-scm-v1-bmc``   Qualcomm DC-SCM V1 BMC
39- ``qcom-firework-bmc``    Qualcomm Firework BMC
40
41Supported devices
42-----------------
43
44 * SMP (for the AST2600 Cortex-A7)
45 * Interrupt Controller (VIC)
46 * Timer Controller
47 * RTC Controller
48 * I2C Controller, including the new register interface of the AST2600
49 * System Control Unit (SCU)
50 * SRAM mapping
51 * X-DMA Controller (basic interface)
52 * Static Memory Controller (SMC or FMC) - Only SPI Flash support
53 * SPI Memory Controller
54 * USB 2.0 Controller
55 * SD/MMC storage controllers
56 * SDRAM controller (dummy interface for basic settings and training)
57 * Watchdog Controller
58 * GPIO Controller (Master only)
59 * UART
60 * Ethernet controllers
61 * Front LEDs (PCA9552 on I2C bus)
62 * LPC Peripheral Controller (a subset of subdevices are supported)
63 * Hash/Crypto Engine (HACE) - Hash support only. TODO: HMAC and RSA
64 * ADC
65 * Secure Boot Controller (AST2600)
66 * eMMC Boot Controller (dummy)
67 * PECI Controller (minimal)
68 * I3C Controller
69
70
71Missing devices
72---------------
73
74 * Coprocessor support
75 * PWM and Fan Controller
76 * Slave GPIO Controller
77 * Super I/O Controller
78 * PCI-Express 1 Controller
79 * Graphic Display Controller
80 * MCTP Controller
81 * Mailbox Controller
82 * Virtual UART
83 * eSPI Controller
84
85Boot options
86------------
87
88The Aspeed machines can be started using the ``-kernel`` and ``-dtb`` options
89to load a Linux kernel or from a firmware. Images can be downloaded from the
90OpenBMC jenkins :
91
92   https://jenkins.openbmc.org/job/ci-openbmc/lastSuccessfulBuild/
93
94or directly from the OpenBMC GitHub release repository :
95
96   https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/releases
97
98To boot a kernel directly from a Linux build tree:
99
100.. code-block:: bash
101
102  $ qemu-system-arm -M ast2600-evb -nographic \
103        -kernel arch/arm/boot/zImage \
104        -dtb arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-ast2600-evb.dtb \
105        -initrd rootfs.cpio
106
107The image should be attached as an MTD drive. Run :
108
109.. code-block:: bash
110
111  $ qemu-system-arm -M romulus-bmc -nic user \
112	-drive file=obmc-phosphor-image-romulus.static.mtd,format=raw,if=mtd -nographic
113
114Options specific to Aspeed machines are :
115
116 * ``execute-in-place`` which emulates the boot from the CE0 flash
117   device by using the FMC controller to load the instructions, and
118   not simply from RAM. This takes a little longer.
119
120 * ``fmc-model`` to change the FMC Flash model. FW needs support for
121   the chip model to boot.
122
123 * ``spi-model`` to change the SPI Flash model.
124
125For instance, to start the ``ast2500-evb`` machine with a different
126FMC chip and a bigger (64M) SPI chip, use :
127
128.. code-block:: bash
129
130  -M ast2500-evb,fmc-model=mx25l25635e,spi-model=mx66u51235f
131
132
133Aspeed minibmc family boards (``ast1030-evb``)
134==================================================================
135
136The QEMU Aspeed machines model mini BMCs of various Aspeed evaluation
137boards. They are based on different releases of the
138Aspeed SoC : the AST1030 integrating an ARM Cortex M4F CPU (200MHz).
139
140The SoC comes with SRAM, SPI, I2C, etc.
141
142AST1030 SoC based machines :
143
144- ``ast1030-evb``          Aspeed AST1030 Evaluation board (Cortex-M4F)
145
146Supported devices
147-----------------
148
149 * SMP (for the AST1030 Cortex-M4F)
150 * Interrupt Controller (VIC)
151 * Timer Controller
152 * I2C Controller
153 * System Control Unit (SCU)
154 * SRAM mapping
155 * Static Memory Controller (SMC or FMC) - Only SPI Flash support
156 * SPI Memory Controller
157 * USB 2.0 Controller
158 * Watchdog Controller
159 * GPIO Controller (Master only)
160 * UART
161 * LPC Peripheral Controller (a subset of subdevices are supported)
162 * Hash/Crypto Engine (HACE) - Hash support only. TODO: HMAC and RSA
163 * ADC
164 * Secure Boot Controller
165 * PECI Controller (minimal)
166
167
168Missing devices
169---------------
170
171 * PWM and Fan Controller
172 * Slave GPIO Controller
173 * Mailbox Controller
174 * Virtual UART
175 * eSPI Controller
176 * I3C Controller
177
178Boot options
179------------
180
181The Aspeed machines can be started using the ``-kernel`` to load a
182Zephyr OS or from a firmware. Images can be downloaded from the
183ASPEED GitHub release repository :
184
185   https://github.com/AspeedTech-BMC/zephyr/releases
186
187To boot a kernel directly from a Zephyr build tree:
188
189.. code-block:: bash
190
191  $ qemu-system-arm -M ast1030-evb -nographic \
192        -kernel zephyr.elf
193
194Facebook Yosemite v3.5 Platform and CraterLake Server (``fby35``)
195==================================================================
196
197Facebook has a series of multi-node compute server designs named
198Yosemite. The most recent version released was
199`Yosemite v3 <https://www.opencompute.org/documents/ocp-yosemite-v3-platform-design-specification-1v16-pdf>`__.
200
201Yosemite v3.5 is an iteration on this design, and is very similar: there's a
202baseboard with a BMC, and 4 server slots. The new server board design termed
203"CraterLake" includes a Bridge IC (BIC), with room for expansion boards to
204include various compute accelerators (video, inferencing, etc). At the moment,
205only the first server slot's BIC is included.
206
207Yosemite v3.5 is itself a sled which fits into a 40U chassis, and 3 sleds
208can be fit into a chassis. See `here <https://www.opencompute.org/products/423/wiwynn-yosemite-v3-server>`__
209for an example.
210
211In this generation, the BMC is an AST2600 and each BIC is an AST1030. The BMC
212runs `OpenBMC <https://github.com/facebook/openbmc>`__, and the BIC runs
213`OpenBIC <https://github.com/facebook/openbic>`__.
214
215Firmware images can be retrieved from the Github releases or built from the
216source code, see the README's for instructions on that. This image uses the
217"fby35" machine recipe from OpenBMC, and the "yv35-cl" target from OpenBIC.
218Some reference images can also be found here:
219
220.. code-block:: bash
221
222    $ wget https://github.com/facebook/openbmc/releases/download/openbmc-e2294ff5d31d/fby35.mtd
223    $ wget https://github.com/peterdelevoryas/OpenBIC/releases/download/oby35-cl-2022.13.01/Y35BCL.elf
224
225Since this machine has multiple SoC's, each with their own serial console, the
226recommended way to run it is to allocate a pseudoterminal for each serial
227console and let the monitor use stdio. Also, starting in a paused state is
228useful because it allows you to attach to the pseudoterminals before the boot
229process starts.
230
231.. code-block:: bash
232
233    $ qemu-system-arm -machine fby35 \
234        -drive file=fby35.mtd,format=raw,if=mtd \
235        -device loader,file=Y35BCL.elf,addr=0,cpu-num=2 \
236        -serial pty -serial pty -serial mon:stdio \
237        -display none -S
238    $ screen /dev/tty0 # In a separate TMUX pane, terminal window, etc.
239    $ screen /dev/tty1
240    $ (qemu) c		   # Start the boot process once screen is setup.
241