[LinuxBIOS] AMD Geode LX support for LinuxBIOS

[Ward Vandewege]

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:25:46PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> * Peter Stuge <stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org> [070504 02:18]:
> > > On paper, IPMI is a great idea. The implementations I've seen suck
> > > royally.
> > 
> > Too bad. :(
> > 
> > I am appreciating the PowerPC coprocessor in some IBM eServers that
> > speaks serial, also when the server is powered off, even more now.
> 
> Sun has these too, on the boards made by Newisys.

Yeah. There's a whole different class of hardware like HP's ILO, Dell's DRAC,
and IBM and Sun's offerings mentioned above. These things are much more
serious than IPMI, but often not quite bug free (HP's ILO for instance
doesn't do Explicit Congestion Notification right, and the web interface is,
well, not the most reliable...). But they are more reliable than any IPMI
imlementation I've seen, that's for sure. They still suffer from the fact
that they are little proprietary machines that behave in sometimes
unpredictable ways, and that can not be fixed by anyone but the manufacturer.
Proprietary software...

Thanks,
Ward.

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Ward Vandewege <ward at fsf.org>
Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator