| Nuvoton iBMC boards (``*-bmc``, ``npcm750-evb``, ``quanta-gsj``) |
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| |
| The `Nuvoton iBMC`_ chips (NPCM7xx) are a family of ARM-based SoCs that are |
| designed to be used as Baseboard Management Controllers (BMCs) in various |
| servers. They all feature one or two ARM Cortex-A9 CPU cores, as well as an |
| assortment of peripherals targeted for either Enterprise or Data Center / |
| Hyperscale applications. The former is a superset of the latter, so NPCM750 has |
| all the peripherals of NPCM730 and more. |
| |
| .. _Nuvoton iBMC: https://www.nuvoton.com/products/cloud-computing/ibmc/ |
| |
| The NPCM750 SoC has two Cortex-A9 cores and is targeted for the Enterprise |
| segment. The following machines are based on this chip : |
| |
| - ``npcm750-evb`` Nuvoton NPCM750 Evaluation board |
| |
| The NPCM730 SoC has two Cortex-A9 cores and is targeted for Data Center and |
| Hyperscale applications. The following machines are based on this chip : |
| |
| - ``quanta-gbs-bmc`` Quanta GBS server BMC |
| - ``quanta-gsj`` Quanta GSJ server BMC |
| - ``kudo-bmc`` Fii USA Kudo server BMC |
| - ``mori-bmc`` Fii USA Mori server BMC |
| |
| There are also two more SoCs, NPCM710 and NPCM705, which are single-core |
| variants of NPCM750 and NPCM730, respectively. These are currently not |
| supported by QEMU. |
| |
| Supported devices |
| ----------------- |
| |
| * SMP (Dual Core Cortex-A9) |
| * Cortex-A9MPCore built-in peripherals: SCU, GIC, Global Timer, Private Timer |
| and Watchdog. |
| * SRAM, ROM and DRAM mappings |
| * System Global Control Registers (GCR) |
| * Clock and reset controller (CLK) |
| * Timer controller (TIM) |
| * Serial ports (16550-based) |
| * DDR4 memory controller (dummy interface indicating memory training is done) |
| * OTP controllers (no protection features) |
| * Flash Interface Unit (FIU; no protection features) |
| * Random Number Generator (RNG) |
| * USB host (USBH) |
| * GPIO controller |
| * Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) |
| * Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) |
| * SMBus controller (SMBF) |
| * Ethernet controller (EMC) |
| * Tachometer |
| |
| Missing devices |
| --------------- |
| |
| * LPC/eSPI host-to-BMC interface, including |
| |
| * Keyboard and mouse controller interface (KBCI) |
| * Keyboard Controller Style (KCS) channels |
| * BIOS POST code FIFO |
| * System Wake-up Control (SWC) |
| * Shared memory (SHM) |
| * eSPI slave interface |
| |
| * Ethernet controller (GMAC) |
| * USB device (USBD) |
| * Peripheral SPI controller (PSPI) |
| * SD/MMC host |
| * PECI interface |
| * PCI and PCIe root complex and bridges |
| * VDM and MCTP support |
| * Serial I/O expansion |
| * LPC/eSPI host |
| * Coprocessor |
| * Graphics |
| * Video capture |
| * Encoding compression engine |
| * Security features |
| |
| Boot options |
| ------------ |
| |
| The Nuvoton machines can boot from an OpenBMC firmware image, or directly into |
| a kernel using the ``-kernel`` option. OpenBMC images for ``quanta-gsj`` and |
| possibly others can be downloaded from the OpenPOWER jenkins : |
| |
| https://openpower.xyz/ |
| |
| The firmware image should be attached as an MTD drive. Example : |
| |
| .. code-block:: bash |
| |
| $ qemu-system-arm -machine quanta-gsj -nographic \ |
| -drive file=image-bmc,if=mtd,bus=0,unit=0,format=raw |
| |
| The default root password for test images is usually ``0penBmc``. |
