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Re:The Supermicro H11DSi Motherboard Mini-Review: The Sole D... by p_l on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:36AM (#23189549)
majority of BMC solutions default to VGA connection, and any good one will have a serial port - either DE-9 or RJ style.

It's much, much easier to standardize on VGA-based iKVMs than otherwise, and this drives the "let's use VGA" movement.

(Only real difference would be switching to DisplayPort, and this doesn't bring any benefits either...)

Re:The Supermicro H11DSi Motherboard Mini-Review: The Sole D... by metaphor on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:54AM (#23189653)
Completely aware of the enterprise implication, but it's somewhat of a disappoint that with all that peripheral support, they could have at least dropped a courtesy single link DVI-I interface instead. It just smells like a decision driven to explicitly avoid paying out licensing royalties.
Re:The Supermicro H11DSi Motherboard Mini-Review: The Sole D... by p_l on Friday May 15, 2020 @04:21AM (#23190054)
And pray tell, what would drive the digital part of the DVI? The video source has only analog VGA output available, so you can technically use a DVI-A connector, but pretty much nothing used them.

And while DVI/HDMI signaling is pretty much VGA-but-analog, recovering digital stream out of analog VGA signal would make no sense.