op-test
Testing Firmware for OpenPOWER systems (by open-power)
skiboot
OPAL boot and runtime firmware for POWER (by open-power)
| op-test | skiboot | |
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| 1 | 1 | |
| 35 | 98 | |
| - | - | |
| 8.5 | 0.0 | |
| 7 days ago | 4 months ago | |
| Python | C | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
op-test
Posts with mentions or reviews of op-test.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-08.
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OPAL on Power8 S824 Question
The way we flashed new OPAL on machines in the lab was different than what may work externally, as they tend to be a bunch more locked down. You can look at things like external/boot-tests/fsp_support.sh in skiboot and the FSP/ASMI code in github.com/open-power/op-test for pointers.
skiboot
Posts with mentions or reviews of skiboot.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-08.
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OPAL on Power8 S824 Question
It doesn't bypass the service processor, just works with it differently. It's a different bunch of code that gets loaded onto the POWER processor as it's Initial Program Load (IPL) and then gets to run an OS. You can even see the code in skiboot (OPAL) that talks to the FSP (Service Processor) in https://github.com/open-power/skiboot/tree/master/hw/fsp and related files.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing op-test and skiboot you can also consider the following projects:
timer-mechanism - Using Timer Mechanisms for Linux
likwid - Performance monitoring and benchmarking suite
Diamorphine - LKM rootkit for Linux Kernels 2.6.x/3.x/4.x/5.x/6.x (x86/x86_64 and ARM64)
fwupd - A system daemon to allow session software to update firmware
SHA-Intrinsics - SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512 compression functions using Intel, ARMv8 and Power8 SHA intrinsics