meta-ibm: remove nginx from IBM platforms.

Nginx on OpenBMC has a number of issues that matter to openbmc.

1. It increases the binary size.  This is an issue given that OpenBMC
targets a relatively minimal flash footprint.
2. It increases the runtime overhead.  Running nginx as a reverse proxy
to the application servers causes a runtime overhead, and context switch
for every single page load, as well as an extra socket.
3. nginx doesn't implement any kind of authentication, so auth needs to
be implemented in every application server.  This removes a lot of the
advantages of the reverse proxy, and duplicates a lot of code amongst
multiple application servers
4. A number of nginx parameters run from the nginx config file.  Some of
these parameters (like cipher suite support) are desired to be changed
at runtime, rather than fixed at compile time.

Related to commit here to move system to bmcweb:
https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/#/c/openbmc/meta-phosphor/+/12933/

(From meta-ibm rev: b6639a209f0089864bef4fc86dcad97880bce682)

Change-Id: I21848eb3a8dfa85968c6c96d6a78f5145402db1d
Signed-off-by: Ed Tanous <ed.tanous@intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit 699e296eb0dbd421bcb2fff4be9d446f47ae7195)
Signed-off-by: Brad Bishop <bradleyb@fuzziesquirrel.com>
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tree: 0b5a9c14622379623020d8221c8f41999e7546d5
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  2. meta-aspeed/
  3. meta-evb/
  4. meta-facebook/
  5. meta-google/
  6. meta-hxt/
  7. meta-ibm/
  8. meta-ingrasys/
  9. meta-inspur/
  10. meta-intel/
  11. meta-inventec/
  12. meta-mellanox/
  13. meta-nuvoton/
  14. meta-openembedded/
  15. meta-openpower/
  16. meta-phosphor/
  17. meta-portwell/
  18. meta-qualcomm/
  19. meta-quanta/
  20. meta-raspberrypi/
  21. meta-security/
  22. meta-x86/
  23. meta-xilinx/
  24. poky/
  25. .gitignore
  26. .gitreview
  27. .templateconf
  28. MAINTAINERS
  29. openbmc-env
  30. README.md
  31. setup
README.md

OpenBMC

Build Status

The OpenBMC project can be described as a Linux distribution for embedded devices that have a BMC; typically, but not limited to, things like servers, top of rack switches or RAID appliances. The OpenBMC stack uses technologies such as Yocto, OpenEmbedded, systemd, and D-Bus to allow easy customization for your server platform.

Setting up your OpenBMC project

1) Prerequisite

  • Ubuntu 14.04
sudo apt-get install -y git build-essential libsdl1.2-dev texinfo gawk chrpath diffstat
  • Fedora 28
sudo dnf install -y git patch diffstat texinfo chrpath SDL-devel bitbake rpcgen
sudo dnf groupinstall "C Development Tools and Libraries"

2) Download the source

git clone git@github.com:openbmc/openbmc.git
cd openbmc

3) Target your hardware

Any build requires an environment variable known as TEMPLATECONF to be set to a hardware target. You can see all of the known targets with find meta-* -name local.conf.sample. Choose the hardware target and then move to the next step. Additional examples can be found in the OpenBMC Cheatsheet

MachineTEMPLATECONF
Palmettometa-ibm/meta-palmetto/conf
Zaiusmeta-ingrasys/meta-zaius/conf
Witherspoonmeta-ibm/meta-witherspoon/conf
Romulusmeta-ibm/meta-romulus/conf

As an example target Palmetto

export TEMPLATECONF=meta-ibm/meta-palmetto/conf

4) Build

. openbmc-env
bitbake obmc-phosphor-image

Additional details can be found in the docs repository.

Build Validation and Testing

Commits submitted by members of the OpenBMC GitHub community are compiled and tested via our Jenkins server. Commits are run through two levels of testing. At the repository level the makefile make check directive is run. At the system level, the commit is built into a firmware image and run with an arm-softmmu QEMU model against a barrage of CI tests.

Commits submitted by non-members do not automatically proceed through CI testing. After visual inspection of the commit, a CI run can be manually performed by the reviewer.

Automated testing against the QEMU model along with supported systems are performed. The OpenBMC project uses the Robot Framework for all automation. Our complete test repository can be found here.

Submitting Patches

Support of additional hardware and software packages is always welcome. Please follow the contributing guidelines when making a submission. It is expected that contributions contain test cases.

Bug Reporting

Issues are managed on GitHub. It is recommended you search through the issues before opening a new one.

Features of OpenBMC

Feature List

  • REST Management
  • IPMI
  • SSH based SOL
  • Power and Cooling Management
  • Event Logs
  • Zeroconf discoverable
  • Sensors
  • Inventory
  • LED Management
  • Host Watchdog
  • Simulation
  • Code Update Support for multiple BMC/BIOS images

Features In Progress

  • Full IPMI 2.0 Compliance with DCMI
  • Verified Boot
  • HTML5 Java Script Web User Interface
  • BMC RAS

Features Requested but need help

  • OpenCompute Redfish Compliance
  • OpenBMC performance monitoring
  • cgroup user management and policies
  • Remote KVM
  • Remote USB
  • OpenStack Ironic Integration
  • QEMU enhancements

Finding out more

Dive deeper in to OpenBMC by opening the docs repository.

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