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Open source implementation of the Baseboard Management Controllers (BMC) Firmware Stack
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The OpenBMC project is a Linux Foundation collaborative open-source project that produces an open source implementation of the baseboard management controllers (BMC) firmware stack. OpenBMC is a Linux distribution for BMCs meant to work across heterogeneous systems that include enterprise, high-performance computing (HPC), telecommunications, and cloud-scale data centers.

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History

In 2014, four Facebook programmers at a Facebook hackathon event created a prototype open-source BMC firmware stack named OpenBMC.6 In 2015, IBM collaborated with Rackspace on an open-source BMC firmware stack also named OpenBMC. These projects were similar in name and concept only.7 In March 2018, OpenBMC became a Linux Foundation project and converged on the IBM stack. Founding organizations of the OpenBMC project are Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Google, and Facebook.89 A technical steering committee was formed to guide the project with representation from the five founding companies. Brad Bishop from IBM was elected chair of the technical steering committee.10 In April 2019, Arm Holdings joined as the 6th member of the OpenBMC technical steering committee.11

Features

OpenBMC uses the Yocto Project as the underlying building and distribution generation framework.12 The firmware itself is based on U-Boot.13 OpenBMC uses D-Bus as an inter-process communication (IPC).1415 OpenBMC includes a web application for interacting with the firmware stack.16 OpenBMC added Redfish support for hardware management.17

Systems

Google/Rackspace partnership Barreleye G2 / Zaius—two-socket server platform using POWER9 processors.1819 IBM Power Systems AC922 also "Witherspoon" or "Newell"—two-socket, 2U Accelerated Computing (AC) node using POWER9 processors with up to 6 Nvidia Volta GPUs.2021 AC922 was used in the U.S. Department of Energy's Sierra and Summit supercomputers.2223 Power System's S1024, L1024, S1022, L1022, S1022, S1014, and E1050 – 1–4 socket Power10 systems24 Raptor Computing Systems / Raptor Engineering Talos II—two-socket workstation and development platform; available as 4U server, tower, or EATX mainboard.2526 Talos II Lite – single-socket version of the Talos II mainboard, made using the same PCB.27 Blackbird – single-socket microATX platform using SMT4 Sforza POWER9 processors, 4–8 cores, 2 RAM slots (supporting up to 256 GiB total)28

References

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  2. "Power of Open(Source)BMC - OpenPOWER". OpenPOWER. 2016-02-02. Retrieved 2018-01-05. https://openpowerfoundation.org/presentations/openbmc-the-next-reference-firmware/ ↩

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  6. "Introducing "OpenBMC": an open software framework for next-generation system management". Facebook Code. 10 March 2015. Retrieved 2018-01-05. https://code.facebook.com/posts/1601610310055392/introducing-openbmc-an-open-software-framework-for-next-generation-system-management/ ↩

  7. "Differences between facebook/openbmc and openbmc/openbmc · Issue #589 · openbmc/openbmc". GitHub. Retrieved 2019-03-28. https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/589 ↩

  8. "Home - OpenBMC". OpenBMC. Retrieved 2018-03-19. https://www.openbmc.org/ ↩

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  10. "README: add Technical Steering Committee members · openbmc/docs@e28e782". GitHub. Retrieved 2019-08-31. https://github.com/openbmc/docs/commit/e28e782ac960b36f0285bd52806185f59c31ad13 ↩

  11. "Docs: Add Arm representative to the list of TSC members · openbmc/docs@560b4ca". GitHub. Retrieved 2019-08-22. https://github.com/openbmc/docs/commit/560b4ca62bb45796133e4966e44d38a3d98cbeb8 ↩

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  13. Lei, Yu (2020-06-15). "BMC Management". developer.ibm.com. Retrieved 2023-10-25. https://docs.nvidia.com/networking/display/bluefieldbmcv28246/bmc+management ↩

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  20. "IBM Power System AC922 - Details - United States". www.ibm.com. 2018-01-05. Retrieved 2018-01-05. https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/power-systems-ac922/details ↩

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  24. "Managing OpenBMC-based and BMC-based systems by using the HMC". www.ibm.com. Retrieved 2023-11-05. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power10/000V-HMC?topic=mhbuhv1l-managing-openbmc-based-bmc-based-systems-by-using-hmc ↩

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  26. "Raptor Computing Systems::TL2WK2 Intro". www.raptorcs.com. Retrieved 2018-01-05. https://www.raptorcs.com/content/TL2WK2/intro.html ↩

  27. "Raptor Computing Systems::TL1MB1 Intro". www.raptorcs.com. Retrieved 2019-08-22. https://www.raptorcs.com/content/TL1MB1/intro.html ↩

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