OpenBMC for ADLINK Ampere Altra systems is now available

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  Rebecca Cran

  3/5/24, 2:13 PM

  I released v1.0 of the port of OpenBMC to ADLINK Ampere Altra systems yesterday.

  The release along with upgrade instructions can be found at https://github.com/bcran/openbmc/releases/tag/v1.0-bexcran

   

  Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a path to switch from MegaRAC to OpenBMC. So if anyone would like to run OpenBMC instead of the MegaRAC firmware that comes with the systems, please contact me and I can send you replacement SPI-NOR EEPROMs.

  

   

  

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  Will 💜

  3/6/24, 2:11 AM

  This is really great to see, nice work!

  I happen to have a 128MiB SPI flash chip kicking around (MT25QL01GBBB8ESF-0SIT), but I don't know what part ships with the AADK. Are there any compatibility concerns to know about?

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  Rebecca Cran

  3/6/24, 2:18 AM

  @Will 💜 I haven't come across any compatibility problems, but I have only tried other Macronix chips (64MB and 128MB).

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  Alex Wang Staff member

  3/8/24, 6:36 AM

  Hi Will, 

  the SPI flash chip at AADK is MX25L25645GMI-08G

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  Philipp Krause

  1/17/25, 10:46 AM

  I've seen that the old repository linked above is gone. Is https://github.com/bexcran/openbmc the new one?

  Any news on being able to upgrade from MegaRAC to OpenBMC without replacing the flash chip?

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  Rebecca Cran

  1/17/25, 3:15 PM

  Yes,  https://github.com/bexcran/openbmc is the new location.

  One tool which can be used to replace MegaRAC with OpenBMC `embedded_reflash` from https://github.com/9elements/embedded_reflash .

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