Ampere OpenBMC v1.15.100

What's New in v1.15.100

Warning: due to SPI NOR layout change, follow the "Steps to update BMC firmware" below to update from pre-1.12 previous version to THIS version.

• Combine driver-binder to host-check service to ensure hwmon is bound before changing HostState to Running (that dbus-sensor starts scan for sensors).
• Prevent error-monitor application to check for RAS error when the Host is OFF.
• Fix power restriction does not work correctly
• Fix OCP AER from Host Linux when power off/soft
• Use RebootCause to prevent power policy on BMC reboots. This helps remove the need of u-boot patch to detect if BMC boots from A/C or reboots.
• Update OpenOCD to revision v1.3.0
• Update FAN control table

Steps to update BMC firmware

1. Reboot BMC from its console. Type quickly to keep BMC stop at u-boot.
2. From u-boot command prompt:
   1. Update ethact and set BMC MAC address (if not available)
      # setenv ethact FTGMAC100#1
# setenv eth1addr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
   2. Run DHCP to get IP
      # dhcp
   3. Set TFTP server IP and download the firmware image (in the raw *.img format)
      # setenv serverip tftp-server-ip-address
# tftp 0x80000000 bmc-image
3. Flash the firmware image into the main SPI-NOR
   # protect off 0x20000000 +${filesize}; erase 0x20000000 +${filesize}; cp.b 0x80000000 0x20000000 ${filesize};protect on all
4. Reboot to boot to new OpenBMC

If you don't have access to BMC console, an alternative is as follows:

• Copy BMC raw image (static.mtd) to BMC at /run/initramfs/image-bmc
  e.g. scp build/tmp/deploy/images/mtjade/obmc-phosphor-image-mtjade.static.mtd root@${BMC_IP}:/run/initramfs/image-bmc
• Reboot BMC to flash the new firmware.

Ampere OpenBMC v1.14.100

What's New in v1.14.100

Warning: due to SPI NOR layout change, follow the "Steps to update BMC firmware using u-boot" below to update from pre-1.12 previous version to THIS version.
• Move patches to meta-ampere/meta-common so that they can be used across platforms.
• Add missing DNS and Gateway in WebUI -> Network
• Fix Redfish EventLog not being able to load more than 1000 entries.
• Remove SoCPowerLimit Rest API as they can be done via IPIM OEM Set/Get SCP Register Values.
• Remove redundant phosphor-hwmon configs.
• Change Sx_CPU_VCORE UC threshold to 2.00V.
• Remove redundant dimm0/1 and cpu0/1 in ipmitool fru print command.
• Fix failure to subscribe events to EventService Redfish schema.
• Fix NCSI not being able to acquire IP address in case of A/C power.
• Fix Mellanox OCP display crash message from Host Linux when BMC is rebooted while the Host is ON.
• Remove redundant u-boot patches.
• Change to use phosphor-multi-gpio-monitor for GPIO-based events: shutdown/reset ACK handling.
• Disable Chassis chassis instance (/redfish/v1/Chassis/chassis) which is redundant when switching to dbus-sensor/entity-manager.
• Remove PSU presence config and inventory as it conflicts to dbus-sensor’s psusensor. Having this config makes PSU sensors not work after hot unplug/replug.
• Change to use GPIO Host Interface to detect Host state when BMC boots, which align with upstream code at openbmc/phosphor-state-manager@ba2241c.
• Fix CPU Fault LED issue not turn off when the fault GPIO from Host deasserted.
• Update Ampere password policy in WebUI help message.
• Added support for SSIF NACK and long IPMI command (update to latest Linux source rev)

Steps to update BMC firmware using u-boot

1. Reboot BMC from its console. Type quickly to keep BMC stop at u-boot.
2. From u-boot command prompt:
   1. Update ethact and set BMC MAC address (if not available)
      # setenv ethact FTGMAC100#1
# setenv eth1addr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
   2. Run DHCP to get IP
      # dhcp
   3. Set TFTP server IP and download the firmware image (in the raw *.img format)
      # setenv serverip tftp-server-ip-address
# tftp 0x80000000 bmc-image
3. Flash the firmware image into the main SPI-NOR
   # protect off 0x20000000 +${filesize}; erase 0x20000000 +${filesize}; cp.b 0x80000000 0x20000000 ${filesize};protect on all
4. Reboot to boot to new OpenBMC

Ampere OpenBMC v1.13.100

What's New in v1.13.100

Warning: due to SPI NOR layout change, follow the "Steps to update BMC firmware using u-boot" below to update from pre-1.12 previous version to THIS version.

• Fix OCP_Temp sensor reading not working.
• Fix wrong LC threshold not work on sensors that have LC threshold without UC.
• Add dbus-sensor’s AddAssoc option to remove some sensors from association.
• Update Reset button pressing to do trigger Host hard reset instead of power cycle.
• Fix unexpected Host State ON event logged when BMC is rebooted.
• Limit the sha512 calculation round used for PAM authentication to 1000. This fixes out-of-band IPMI not responding after AC cycle.

Steps to update BMC firmware using u-boot

1. Reboot BMC from its console. Type quickly to keep BMC stop at u-boot.
2. From u-boot command prompt:
   1. Update ethact and set BMC MAC address (if not available)
      # setenv ethact FTGMAC100#1
# setenv eth1addr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
   2. Run DHCP to get IP
      # dhcp
   3. Set TFTP server IP and download the firmware image (in the raw *.img format)
      # setenv serverip tftp-server-ip-address
# tftp 0x80000000 bmc-image
3. Flash the firmware image into the main SPI-NOR
   # protect off 0x20000000 +${filesize}; erase 0x20000000 +${filesize}; cp.b 0x80000000 0x20000000 ${filesize};protect on all
4. Reboot to boot to new OpenBMC

Ampere OpenBMC v1.12.100

What's New in v1.12.100

Warning: due to SPI NOR layout change, follow the "Steps to update BMC firmware using u-boot" below to update from pre-1.12 previous version to THIS version.

• Update the codebase to upstream commit f2b0452, along with update linux to kernel 5.14.6.
• Add pnor-uefi partition to use for Host UEFI firmware update. This removes the offset support patch for the flashcp command.
• Remove Redfish sensors from /redfish/v1/Chassis/chassis as by the use of dbus-sensor/entity-manager, sensors are displayed in /redfish/v1/Chassis/Mt_Jade.
• Use fixed MAC address for USB virtual Ethernet, generated from the RGMII MAC address with first byte replaced by 02h and 06h, for Host and BMC MAC.
• Support FRUDevice to read UUID from the FRU multi-record area.
• Change to use IPMI dynamic sensor feature for ipmitool fru read/write/edit commands.
• Support Ampere IPMI OEM “Set BMC MAC Address” command.
• Change default power restore policy to "always-on"
• Change to use GPIO interface for checking Host State when BMC is rebooted (as the [email protected] was removed from phosphor-state-manager)
• Report bank, row, column in DIMM CE/UE errors to Redfish with MemoryExtendedECCCEData/MemoryExtendedECCUEData registry event.

Known Issue:

• After running power control operations, out-of-band IPMI might not response in around 1minute.

Steps to update BMC firmware using u-boot

1. Reboot BMC from its console. Type quickly to keep BMC stop at u-boot.
2. From u-boot command prompt:
   1. Update ethact and set BMC MAC address (if not available)
      # setenv ethact FTGMAC100#1
# setenv eth1addr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
   2. Run DHCP to get IP
      # dhcp
   3. Set TFTP server IP and download the firmware image (in the raw *.img format)
      # setenv serverip tftp-server-ip-address
# tftp 0x80000000 bmc-image
3. Flash the firmware image into the main SPI-NOR
   # protect off 0x20000000 +${filesize}; erase 0x20000000 +${filesize}; cp.b 0x80000000 0x20000000 ${filesize};protect on all
4. Reboot to boot to new OpenBMC

Ampere OpenBMC v1.11.100

What's New in v1.11.100

Warning: due to SPI NOR layout change, follow the "Steps to update BMC firmware using u-boot" below to update from pre-1.07 previous version to THIS version. If you are upgrading from v1.07 then the regular upgrade procedure applies

• Support IPMI SOL for CPU UART.
• Fix IPMI chassis bootdev clear-cmos not taking affect.
• Correct output response from the IPMI Get Bootstrap Account Credentials command
• Fix BMC occasional crashed when doing Host CPU power cycle/reset/reboot stress test.

Steps to update BMC firmware using u-boot

1. Reboot BMC from its console. Type quickly to keep BMC stop at u-boot.
2. From u-boot command prompt:
   1. Update ethact and set BMC MAC address (if not available)
      # setenv ethact FTGMAC100#1
# setenv eth1addr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
   2. Run DHCP to get IP
      # dhcp
   3. Set TFTP server IP and download the firmware image (in the raw *.img format)
      # setenv serverip tftp-server-ip-address
# tftp 0x80000000 bmc-image
3. Flash the firmware image into the main SPI-NOR
   # protect off 0x20000000 +${filesize}; erase 0x20000000 +${filesize}; cp.b 0x80000000 0x20000000 ${filesize};protect on all
4. Reboot to boot to new OpenBMC

Ampere OpenBMC v1.10.100

What's New in v1.10.100

Warning: due to SPI NOR layout change, follow the "Steps to update BMC firmware using u-boot" below to update from pre-1.07 previous version to THIS version. If you are upgrading from v1.07 then the regular upgrade procedure applies

• Update smpro-misc to read all boot stages from the boot stage register (0xB0).
• Log DIMM 2X Refresh Rate events in IPMI SEL and Redfish
• Log DIMM training fail (syndrome) information to IPMI and Redfish.
• Add bank, row, column information for DIMM CE/UE errors in Redfish
• Temporary disable IPMI mc reset warm as it causes issues with power operation afterward
• Update new Fan Algorithm Table v6 ([Mt. Jade 2U]
• Implement IPMI OEM Command to read write SCP register map.
  - Write a value to SCP register: ipmitool raw 0x3c 0x18 <socket > <offset> <byte0> <byte 1>
  - Read a value from SCP register: ipmitool raw 0x3c 0x17 <socket > <offset>
  Where: socket = 0 or 1.

Steps to update BMC firmware using u-boot

1. Reboot BMC from its console. Type quickly to keep BMC stop at u-boot.
2. From u-boot command prompt:
   1. Update ethact and set BMC MAC address (if not available)
      # setenv ethact FTGMAC100#1
# setenv eth1addr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
   2. Run DHCP to get IP
      # dhcp
   3. Set TFTP server IP and download the firmware image (in the raw *.img format)
      # setenv serverip tftp-server-ip-address
# tftp 0x80000000 bmc-image
3. Flash the firmware image into the main SPI-NOR
   # protect off 0x20000000 +${filesize}; erase 0x20000000 +${filesize}; cp.b 0x80000000 0x20000000 ${filesize};protect on all
4. Reboot to boot to new OpenBMC

Ampere OpenBMC v1.09.100

What's New in v1.09.100

Warning: due to SPI NOR layout change, follow the "Steps to update BMC firmware using u-boot" below to update from pre-1.07 previous version to THIS version. If you are upgrading from v1.07 then the regular upgrade procedure applies

• Enable dbus-sensor/entity-manager by default.
• Update IPMI fru report to use information from entity-manager's FruDevice.
• Enable POSTCode support to log all detected boot progress to POSTCode.
• Simplified boot-progress implementation by using shell script and logger-systemd. This eliminates the needs for inclusion of support for this feature in ampere-platform-mgmt repo.
• Update Get Bootstrap Account Credentials IPMI command per latest Arm SBMR with more features:
  • Auto-delete bootstrap account when Host restart and BMC boot.
  • Restrict the Get Boot Strap Account IPMI command to SSIF interface only.
  • Disallow new Get Bootstrap Account after disabling (by sending command option different from 0xA5)
• Support IPMI mc reset warm command. It will trigger "systemctl default" to reset all BMC services.
• Support Ampere IPMI OEM "Sync RTC time" (raw 0x3c 0xf9). If receiving this command, BMC will update its system time from RTC.
• Log Redfish events for power and reset buttons.
• Fix IPMI sensor threshold not available if not all UC/LC/UNC/ULC thresholds defined.
• Update Host power control to better match OpenBMC framework.
• Update ssif_bmc kernel driver to support sending SSIF NACK to take care of IPMI commands that take long response time

Steps to update BMC firmware using u-boot

1. Reboot BMC from its console. Type quickly to keep BMC stop at u-boot.
2. From u-boot command prompt:
   1. Update ethact and set BMC MAC address (if not available)
      # setenv ethact FTGMAC100#1
# setenv eth1addr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
   2. Run DHCP to get IP
      # dhcp
   3. Set TFTP server IP and download the firmware image (in the raw *.img format)
      # setenv serverip tftp-server-ip-address
# tftp 0x80000000 bmc-image
3. Flash the firmware image into the main SPI-NOR
   # protect off 0x20000000 +${filesize}; erase 0x20000000 +${filesize}; cp.b 0x80000000 0x20000000 ${filesize};protect on all
4. Reboot to boot to new OpenBMC

Ampere OpenBMC v1.08.100

What's New in v1.08.100

Warning: due to SPI NOR layout change, follow the "Steps to update BMC firmware using u-boot" below to update to this version from pre-1.07 previous version. If you are upgrading from v1.07 then the regular upgrade procedure applies

• Simplified scp-failover feature by changing to implement in shell script and logger-systemd. This eliminates the needs for inclusion of support for this feature in ampere-platform-mgmt repo.
• Changed host-state update using shell script for simpler and easier to maintain. This eliminates the needs for inclusion of support for this in ampere-platform-mgmt repo.
• Added Initial support for Get Bootstrap Account Credentials IPMI command per latest Arm SBMR.
  Limitations:
  • Bootstrap account auto-delete has not been supported.
• Added support for IPMI lan print 3 command for querying USB Ethernet information
• Other bug fixes and improvements

Steps to update BMC firmware using u-boot

1. Reboot BMC from its console. Type quickly to keep BMC stop at u-boot.
2. From u-boot command prompt:
   1. Update ethact and set BMC MAC address (if not available)
      # setenv ethact FTGMAC100#1
# setenv eth1addr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
   2. Run DHCP to get IP
      # dhcp
   3. Set TFTP server IP and download the firmware image (in the raw *.img format)
      # setenv serverip tftp-server-ip-address
# tftp 0x80000000 bmc-image
3. Flash the firmware image into the main SPI-NOR
   # protect off 0x20000000 +${filesize}; erase 0x20000000 +${filesize}; cp.b 0x80000000 0x20000000 ${filesize};protect on all
4. Reboot to boot to new OpenBMC

To enable entity-manager/dbus-sensor

1. Delete meta-ampere/meta-jade/recipes-phosphor/sensors/phosphor-hwmon_%.bbappend file
2. Update meta-ampere/meta-jade/recipes-phosphor/packagegroups/packagegroup-obmc-apps.bbappend as follows:
   1. Add dbus-sensor and entity-manager to RDEPENDS_${PN}-extras_append_mtjade
RDEPENDS_${PN}-extras_append_mtjade = " \ ${POWER_SERVICE_PACKAGES} \ webui-vue \ phosphor-image-signing \ phosphor-virtual-sensor \ dbus-sensors \ entity-manager \ "
   2. Remove phosphor-hwmon and change sensors-hwmon to dbus-sensor:
      RDEPENDS_${PN}-extras_remove_mtjade = " phosphor-hwmon"
VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_obmc-sensors-hwmon ?= "dbus-sensors"

Ampere OpenBMC v1.07.100

What's New in v1.07.100

Warning: due to SPI NOR layout change, follow the steps below to update to this version from previous version

• Change BMC SPI-NOR layout to use 64MB. Need to update from u-boot to flash 64MB firmware from 32 MB firmware, and vice versa.
• Preliminary support for entity-manager/dbus-sensor. Note that the default build still use phosphor-hwmon.
  To configure to use entity-manager instead of phosphor-hwmon, refer to instructions below.
• Update the "LastState" field in Boot Progress properties of Redfish schema redfish/v1/System/system.
• Switch to use phosphor-nvme for NVMe temperature reading. Verified on the PM983 2.5" 960GB SSD drives.
• Support the ‘ipmitool mc guid’ command to return System GUID.
• Support CHICONY PSU in inventory.
• Other bug fixes and improvements

Steps to update BMC firmware using u-boot

1. Reboot BMC from its console. Type quickly to keep BMC stop at u-boot.
2. From u-boot command prompt:
   1. Update ethact and set BMC MAC address (if not available)
      # setenv ethact FTGMAC100#1
# setenv eth1addr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
   2. Run DHCP to get IP
      # dhcp
   3. Set TFTP server IP and download the firmware image (in the raw *.img format)
      # setenv serverip tftp-server-ip-address
# tftp 0x80000000 bmc-image
3. Flash the firmware image into the main SPI-NOR
   # protect off 0x20000000 +${filesize}; erase 0x20000000 +${filesize}; cp.b 0x80000000 0x20000000 ${filesize};protect on all
4. Reboot to boot to new OpenBMC

To enable entity-manager/dbus-sensor

1. Delete meta-ampere/meta-jade/recipes-phosphor/sensors/phosphor-hwmon_%.bbappend file
2. Update meta-ampere/meta-jade/recipes-phosphor/packagegroups/packagegroup-obmc-apps.bbappend as follows:
   1. Add dbus-sensor and entity-manager to RDEPENDS_${PN}-extras_append_mtjade
RDEPENDS_${PN}-extras_append_mtjade = " \ ${POWER_SERVICE_PACKAGES} \ webui-vue \ phosphor-image-signing \ phosphor-virtual-sensor \ dbus-sensors \ entity-manager \ "
   2. Remove phosphor-hwmon and change sensors-hwmon to dbus-sensor:
      RDEPENDS_${PN}-extras_remove_mtjade = " phosphor-hwmon"
VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_obmc-sensors-hwmon ?= "dbus-sensors"

Ampere OpenBMC v1.06.100

What's New in v1.06.100

Warning: OpenBMC version v1.04 and above is required to upgrade Ampere's host firmware to version 1.04 and above.

• Upgrade Linux kernel to 5.10.23.
• Rebase OpenBMC to upstream commit 6f59044
• Change to using webui-vue for BMC Web UI
• Support PSU inventory in Web UI and Redfish
• Support IPMI chassis bootparam get 4
• Bug fixes