Re:Reverse engineering Dell iDRAC to get rid of GPU throttling
by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @05:39PM
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Actually, why aren't they literally normal little computers? Like, fully open, bring your own OS computers. All it needs is some peripherals - Ethernet, its own host USB, gadget mode USB to present mouse/kb/storage to the main computer, video capture card, some GPIO to control power - but there's nothing all that special there; then you just install Debian or w/e and control the perfectly standard interfaces at will.
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Re:Reverse engineering Dell iDRAC to get rid of GPU throttling
by wmf on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @05:58PM
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The interface between the BMC and motherboard is unique to each motherboard, especially for "added value" features that some servers have. DC-SCM is working on standardizing this but I don't know how interoperable it will be.
Re:Reverse engineering Dell iDRAC to get rid of GPU throttling
by croutonwagon on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @07:26PM
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Personally I have some pikvms at home. And while not full parity to idrac enterprise, and it takes some extra effort to get atx, I have STRONGLY been considering dropping them in our DC to at least replace the dell ipkvm that frankly is a security nightmare.