Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI

Re:Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI by gjvc on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @10:14AM (#45656086)

the name "ILO" clashes with "Integrated Lights-Out" management as used by (or was used by) some server hardware vendors.

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Re:Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI by imglorp on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @10:52AM (#45656570)

    IPMI - standard
    DRAC - Dell
    iLOM - Sun/Oracle
    iLO - HP
    IMM - IBM

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Re:Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI by buildbot on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @11:38AM (#45657140)

XSCF - Fujitsu/Oracle SPARC

(I wonder how they got that acronym)

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Re:Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI by kragen on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @12:08PM (#45657520)

It looks like they generated random four-letter combinations until they found one that wasn't used.

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Re:Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI by imglorp on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @12:54PM (#45658115)

Possibly eXtended System Control Facility.

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Re:Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI by buildbot on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @02:59PM (#45660073)

Ooo also, there is the RMC in some HP Alphaservers

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Re:Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI by LargoLasskhyfv on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @05:18PM (#45661849)

eXtended System Configuration Facility?

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Re:Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI by p_l on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @12:56PM (#45658150)

  BMC - vendor neutral
  RedFish - Current DMTF standard replacing IPMI
  ALOM - sometimes encountered in the wild as part of iLO :O
  HMC - IBM on non-x86 systems (except OpenPower), not compatible with anything else
  RSA - used to be IBM
  IMC - Cisco

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Re:Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI by crc_ on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @03:03PM (#45660143)

I wasn't aware of the clash when I chose the name, unfortunately.

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Re:Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI by lproven on Thursday October 23, 2025 @07:44AM (#45680731)

That was my immediate thought: it's a Forth that runs inside an ILO controller? Weird, but OK, I can see that could have some intriguing potential applications...

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