Open ssbarnea opened 3 years ago
Hi, welcome to the project!
At the moment, my Linux port (based on recent mainline) is in a very early stage (basic SoC support just got merged into linux-next).
There are a few first things you can do and document somewhere for future reference:
For the medium future, my plan is to make a minimal userspace based on buildroot (perhaps similar to !BMC), that will include all the necessary tools for BMC functionality (power on/off, remote KVM, POST code tracing, BIOS update). OpenBMC might come at some point, but I'll first prototype something simpler.
@ssbarnea I'm curious — what's the model name of your server?
X8DTT-F are the boards but at boot time I get:
Supermicro X8DTT-H/X8DTT-H, BIOS 2.1c 04/22/2014
I think that the server model is SS6026TT-HTRF
Ah, I've seen a few times with Supermicro, that there are different variants of the same PCB, which just have different components populated and unpopulated. I guess this is also the case with X8DTT-F vs. X8DTT-H, even to the point where they use the same BIOS.
If I remember well the difference is if it has or not infiniband, mine do not have it. Should I try to grab some photos with front/back of the board?
@ssbarnea X-ray photos of the board in the area of the BMC would be ideal, but regular photos are useful too. Meanwhile I got a X8DFF-HIBQF+ and will document what I know soon. I haven't found the UART TX signal though…
@ssbarnea I made a few pictures of my board at https://github.com/neuschaefer/linux/wiki/Supermicro-X8DTT-family, but then I noticed that the -H variants and the variants without -H have a different layout around the BMC (most notably, the RAM is in a different position). Because of these layout differences, my note probably won't be very useful to you. I am curious to see close-up pictures of the area around the BMC on your board.
My boards are X8DTT-HF+
and they indeed have the proprietary connector. Here is a photo taken around the BMC:
supermicro-X8DTT-HF+-bmc
Good. This means that you should be able to access the BMC's UART as I documented (with a 3.3V serial adapter), which is always useful for low-level debugging and testing.
I don't have a clear view of how the AMI firmware works, yet, but I'll notify you when I have something to test.
Meanwhile, if you want to play around with very very minimal Linux, the nuvoton-wpcm450-supermicro-x9sci-ln4f
devicetree that was merged for Linux 5.13 should work without causing harm (as long as it doesn't know about GPIOs).
Have 2 x Intel S2600GZ (last kernel 5.12) 2 x Supermicro X9DRT-F (last kernel 5.12) 4 x Supermicro X9DRT-F/IBFF (win 2019) 1 x Supermicro X8DTN+-F (win 2016) with broken IPMI firmware (bios boot 10+ minx,. say ipmi load failed and continue.). After update to x10 series IPMI FW. Not found ideas or mans to recovery it remotely.
if need some tests for replace bios/ipmi fw... .you a wellcome
Hi @slavonnet, thanks for the list.
I've created a wiki page to keep track of who can test on which board: List of mainboards
As far as I can tell, the Intel S2600GZ doesn't seem to have a WPCM450 but a different BMC. I'm not absolutely sure though, because I couldn't find good pictures of it.
Hi @slavonnet, thanks for the list.
I've created a wiki page to keep track of who can test on which board: List of mainboards
As far as I can tell, the Intel S2600GZ doesn't seem to have a WPCM450 but a different BMC. I'm not absolutely sure though, because I couldn't find good pictures of it.
We use Intel AXXRMM4R module. In intel only 4 modules for IPMI. Its full features (but can't update bios, unbrick bios or flash ipmi). Only Viewver and logs... :(
Here HW info from Intel Server s2600GZ4_dmidecode.txt s2600GZ4_lshw.txt s2600GZ4_lspci.txt
Here BMC FW for all Supermicro X9 Mainboards (and some X8,X10). Many GPIO and other BUIS can be grabbed from configs. Last version is 3.64 https://www.supermicro.com/wdl/GPL/SMT/SDK_SMT_X9_317.tar.gz
Here full SDK for WinBoard BMC https://www.supermicro.com/wdl/GPL/AMI/SMC_winbond_opensrc_10090602.tar.gz
Here all BMC and BIOS for SuperMicro https://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/bios_ipmi.php?type=BMC Try search X9 in search input
i REALY think what all X9 use COMMON FW (becouse different MB get one bin to updatye) and common configs can't be grabbed from BIN
The lspci has the following lines:
0b:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. MGA G200e [Pilot] ServerEngines (SEP1) (rev 05) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
DeviceName: ServerEngines Pilot III
Which show that the BMC is a ServerEngines Pilot BMC, which is a different chip family.
The Pilot series was at some point acquired by ASPEED: https://www.aspeedtech.com/server_pilot3/
Here BMC FW for all Supermicro X9 Mainboards (and some X8,X10). Many GPIO and other BUIS can be grabbed from configs. Last version is 3.64 https://www.supermicro.com/wdl/GPL/SMT/SDK_SMT_X9_317.tar.gz
This is interesting, but I can't see the GPIO information in the platform_X****.xml files.
i REALY think what all X9 use COMMON FW (becouse different MB get one bin to updatye) and common configs can't be grabbed from BIN
For the ATEN-based firmware, I agree. AFAIK they run the same firmware image, and boards are distinguished by "board ID".
Hi @neuschaefer and sorry for abusing the issue tracker for contacting you regarding the infamous Nuvoton WPCM450 BMC. I happen to have a 4-node supermicro server in my garage homelab, which I use mostly for testing, and I would really want to be able to replace the outdated BMC software that it has with somethign more open, like openbmc.
Please let me know if there is something I can do to help with testing in this area. As I do only use only one of the nodes, I am willing to risk breaking the firmware in the name of freedom.