IPMI support in 9.3.1

[rogerh]

Right. That was established half a dozen messages ago. So an upgrade to a Xeon would probably fix this, but that's probably not a prudent option just to gain remote management.

Personally, I'd check whether the MB is the same part number for both T20 variants before I tried that!

 

[jgreco]

Dell still does crap like that?

Wow.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

the management option for the T20 is Intel AMT, not IPMI

Just to be clear, now that we're talking Intel AMT and not IPMI, we're back to "it's the CPU", right? Seems pretty clear from Intel's website. I apologize for adding to the confusion earlier.

 

[jgreco]

Yeah, AMT is some sort of chipset/CPU combinatorial thing. I don't keep up to date on that since it seems to change a bit every year or two. IPMI is "more independent" of the host system because it is actually a separate SoC and usually a specialized video subsystem, etc.

 

[Ericloewe]

Yeah, AMT is some sort of chipset/CPU combinatorial thing. I don't keep up to date on that since it seems to change a bit every year or two. IPMI is "more independent" of the host system because it is actually a separate SoC and usually a specialized video subsystem, etc.

That kind of stuff gives me a headache. Not only does it keep changing, but it also involves a lot of things that raise eyebrows. OS-independent access by the system firmware to PCI-e devices like NICs and execution of arbitrary code with full privileges on OSes that wish to do so (that's how Lenovo did their latest stunt - they embedded their crapware's binary in the system firmware - which Windows happily executes, reloading the spyware) sound like double-edged swords to me.

 

[jgreco]

That kind of stuff gives me a headache. Not only does it keep changing, but it also involves a lot of things that raise eyebrows. OS-independent access by the system firmware to PCI-e devices like NICs and execution of arbitrary code with full privileges on OSes that wish to do so (that's how Lenovo did their latest stunt - they embedded their crapware's binary in the system firmware - which Windows happily executes, reloading the spyware) sound like double-edged swords to me.

Yeeeeeuppp....