Group: Hardware/Computers/BMC/Talos II
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Introduction
This page will have information about the BMC used in the Talos II (and maybe the Talos II Lite as well).
Specifications
| System on a chip | Aspeed AST2500 BMC |
|---|---|
| CPU | ARM (which version? armv7? armv4?) |
| RAM | ? Can usually be deduced from the device tree. |
| Storage | ? Can usually be deduced from firmware updates. |
Issue
The main issue is that while all the hardware works with free software, there is no FSDG compliant distribution for the BMC.
There might be a way to fix that either by adding support for the BMC in small distributions like LibreCMC or ProteanOS or by writing a small firmware that just boot the main computer without exposing any BMC features.
There is also some documentation about using the FPGA as BMC. This also explains exactly how to deactivate the BMC once booted. So it might be possible to do very basic initialization in one way or another and just deactivate it when done.
