ASPEED AST2050
The AST2050 chipset is an Integrated Remote Management Processor introduced by ASPEED Technology Inc. It is a high performance and highly integrated SOC device designed to support various management functions required for server platforms which require baseboard management, virtual storage functions, and/or KVM-over-IP functions.
Open source support for the AST2050's VGA output (text-mode only) was implemented in coreboot by Raptor Engineering[1]. Full VGA output support requires ASPEED's closed source VGABIOS to be included in the coreboot rom. A rudimentary port of OpenBMC was also developed by Raptor Engineering[2].
Official Documentation
OpenBMC
Compiling from source
Compilation has been tested on Debian 9.
Debian 9 Dependencies
apt-get install gawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo gcc-multilib autotools-dev build-essential chrpath socat libsdl1.2-dev xterm
Create the missing /etc/perl/find.pl file[3]
warn "Legacy library @{[(caller(0))[6]]} will be removed from the Perl core distribution in the next major release. Please install it from the CPAN distribution Perl4::CoreLibs. It is being used at @{[(caller)[1]]}, line @{[(caller)[2]]}.\n";
# This library is deprecated and unmaintained. It is included for
# compatibility with Perl 4 scripts which may use it, but it will be
# removed in a future version of Perl. Please use the File::Find module
# instead.
# Usage:
# require "find.pl";
#
# &find('/foo','/bar');
#
# sub wanted { ... }
# where wanted does whatever you want. $dir contains the
# current directory name, and $_ the current filename within
# that directory. $name contains "$dir/$_". You are cd'ed
# to $dir when the function is called. The function may
# set $prune to prune the tree.
#
# For example,
#
# find / -name .nfs\* -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \; -o -fstype nfs -prune
#
# corresponds to this
#
# sub wanted {
# /^\.nfs.*$/ &&
# (($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid) = lstat($_)) &&
# int(-M _) > 7 &&
# unlink($_)
# ||
# ($nlink || (($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid) = lstat($_))) &&
# $dev < 0 &&
# ($prune = 1);
# }
#
# Set the variable $dont_use_nlink if you're using AFS, since AFS cheats.
use File::Find ();
*name = *File::Find::name;
*prune = *File::Find::prune;
*dir = *File::Find::dir;
*topdir = *File::Find::topdir;
*topdev = *File::Find::topdev;
*topino = *File::Find::topino;
*topmode = *File::Find::topmode;
*topnlink = *File::Find::topnlink;
sub find {
&File::Find::find(\&wanted, @_);
}
1;
/etc/perl/find.pl md5sum: 129bb8ba7bd008f350f1863a49034b7e
Configuring and Compiling
This version of OpenBMC for the AST2050 has had several components removed for improved security. Broken links to fetch dependencies have also been fixed (as of 20251208). Review the associated git commits for details.
### Fetch Sources git clone -b fido https://git.15h.org/mrothfuss/ast2050-yocto-poky.git ast2050-yocto-poky cd ast2050-yocto-poky git clone -b fido https://git.15h.org/mrothfuss/ast2050-yocto-openembedded.git meta-openembedded git clone https://git.15h.org/mrothfuss/ast2050-yocto-openbmc.git meta-openbmc ### Setup Build export TEMPLATECONF=meta-openbmc/meta-raptor/meta-asus/conf source oe-init-build-env cp -Rp ../local-aspeed.conf conf/local.conf touch conf/sanity.conf ### Set root password # The default root password for SSH is 0penBmc. # Generate a new encrypted password string: printf "%q\n" $(openssl passwd -1) # Edit the config file (EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS), replace the password hash with the one you generated. vim conf/local.conf ### Build. Your ROM will be at tmp/deploy/images/asus/flash-asus-DATETIME bitbake asus-image
Using the BMC
Scan your network for a new device listening on port 22, then login with ssh
nmap -p 22 10.0.0.1/24 ssh root@IPADDR
You can set the ethernet MAC address to match the one printed on the BMC module. The BMC IP will likely change after setting the MAC address and rebooting.
fw_setenv ethaddr 01:23:45:67:89:ab reboot
You can access COM2 with screen:
screen /dev/ttyS0 115200
You can use the asus_power.sh command to view/change power states.
asus_power.sh status asus_power.sh on asus_power.sh reset asus_power.sh off