OpenBMC is a Linux distribution for management controllers used in devices such as servers, top of rack switches or RAID appliances. It uses Yocto, OpenEmbedded, systemd, and D-Bus to allow easy customization for your platform.
See the Yocto documentation for the latest requirements
sudo apt install git python3-distutils gcc g++ make file wget \
gawk diffstat bzip2 cpio chrpath zstd lz4 bzip2
sudo dnf install git python3 gcc g++ gawk which bzip2 chrpath cpio \
hostname file diffutils diffstat lz4 wget zstd rpcgen patch
git clone https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc
cd openbmc
Any build requires an environment set up according to your hardware target.
There is a special script in the root of this repository that can be used to
configure the environment as needed. The script is called setup
and takes the
name of your hardware target as an argument.
The script needs to be sourced while in the top directory of the OpenBMC repository clone, and, if run without arguments, will display the list of supported hardware targets, see the following example:
$ . setup <machine> [build_dir]
Target machine must be specified. Use one of:
bletchley mori s8036
dl360poc mtjade swift
e3c246d4i mtmitchell tatlin-archive-x86
ethanolx nicole tiogapass
evb-ast2500 olympus-nuvoton transformers
evb-ast2600 on5263m5 vegman-n110
evb-npcm750 p10bmc vegman-rx20
f0b palmetto vegman-sx20
fp5280g2 qcom-dc-scm-v1 witherspoon
g220a quanta-q71l witherspoon-tacoma
gbs romed8hm3 x11spi
greatlakes romulus yosemitev2
gsj s2600wf zaius
kudo s6q
lannister s7106
Once you know the target (e.g. romulus), source the setup
script as follows:
. setup romulus
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
- 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
Dive deeper into OpenBMC by opening the docs repository.