The OpenBMC project can be described as a Linux distribution for embedded devices that have a BMC; typically, but not limited to, things like servers, top of rack switches or RAID appliances. The OpenBMC stack uses technologies such as Yocto, OpenEmbedded, systemd, and D-Bus to allow easy customization for your server platform.
- Ubuntu 14.04
sudo apt-get install -y git build-essential libsdl1.2-dev texinfo gawk chrpath diffstat
- Fedora 28
sudo dnf install -y git patch diffstat texinfo chrpath SDL-devel bitbake \
rpcgen perl-Thread-Queue perl-bignum perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-Bignum
sudo dnf groupinstall "C Development Tools and Libraries"
git clone git@github.com:openbmc/openbmc.git
cd openbmc
Any build requires an environment variable known as TEMPLATECONF to be set
to a hardware target.
You can see all of the known targets with
find meta-* -name local.conf.sample. Choose the hardware target and
then move to the next step. Additional examples can be found in the
OpenBMC Cheatsheet
| Machine | TEMPLATECONF |
|---|---|
| Palmetto | meta-ibm/meta-palmetto/conf |
| Zaius | meta-ingrasys/meta-zaius/conf |
| Witherspoon | meta-ibm/meta-witherspoon/conf |
| Romulus | meta-ibm/meta-romulus/conf |
As an example target Romulus
export TEMPLATECONF=meta-ibm/meta-romulus/conf
. openbmc-env
bitbake obmc-phosphor-image
Additional details can be found in the docs repository.
The OpenBMC community maintains a set of tutorials new users can go through to get up to speed on OpenBMC development out here
Commits submitted by members of the OpenBMC GitHub community are compiled and
tested via our Jenkins server. Commits are run
through two levels of testing. At the repository level the makefile make check directive is run. At the system level, the commit is built into a
firmware image and run with an arm-softmmu QEMU model against a barrage of
CI tests.
Commits submitted by non-members do not automatically proceed through CI testing. After visual inspection of the commit, a CI run can be manually performed by the reviewer.
Automated testing against the QEMU model along with supported systems are performed. The OpenBMC project uses the Robot Framework for all automation. Our complete test repository can be found here.
Support of additional hardware and software packages is always welcome. Please follow the contributing guidelines when making a submission. It is expected that contributions contain test cases.
Issues are managed on GitHub. It is recommended you search through the issues before opening a new one.
First, please do a search on the internet. There's a good chance your question has already been asked.
For general questions, please use the openbmc tag on Stack Overflow. Please review the discussion on Stack Overflow licensing before posting any code.
For technical discussions, please see contact info below for IRC and mailing list information. Please don't file an issue to ask a question. You'll get faster results by using the mailing list or IRC.
Feature List
- Host management: Power, Cooling, LEDs, Inventory, Events, Watchdog
- Full IPMI 2.0 Compliance with DCMI
- Code Update Support for multiple BMC/BIOS images
- Web-based user interface
- REST interfaces
- D-Bus based interfaces
- SSH based SOL
- Remote KVM
- Hardware Simulation
- Automated Testing
- User management
- Virtual media
Features In Progress
- OpenCompute Redfish Compliance
- Verified Boot
Features Requested but need help
- OpenBMC performance monitoring
Dive deeper into OpenBMC by opening the docs repository.
The Technical Steering Committee (TSC) guides the project. Members are:
- Brad Bishop (chair), IBM
- Nancy Yuen, Google
- Sai Dasari, Facebook
- James Mihm, Intel
- Sagar Dharia, Microsoft
- Supreeth Venkatesh, Arm
- Mail: openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/openbmc
- IRC: #openbmc on freenode.net
- Riot: #openbmc:matrix.org