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.
- Ubuntu 14.04
sudo apt-get install -y git build-essential libsdl1.2-dev texinfo gawk chrpath diffstat \
zstd pigz
- 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 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 gsj romulus
dl360poc kudo s2600wf
e3c246d4i mihawk swift
ethanolx mtjade tiogapass
evb-ast2500 nicole transformers
evb-ast2600 olympus-nuvoton witherspoon
evb-npcm750 on5263m5 witherspoon-tacoma
f0b p10bmc x11spi
fp5280g2 palmetto yosemitev2
g220a qemuarm zaius
gbs quanta-q71l
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
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 Discord 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 Discord.
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:
- Roxanne Clarke, IBM
- Nancy Yuen, Google
- Sai Dasari, Facebook
- Terry Duncan, Intel
- Sagar Dharia, Microsoft
- Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud, Arm