That's amazing! The flexibility of the kernel strikes again. They say they got
their first BMC image running in under 24hrs, including ssh.
Great news, thanks for sharing.
Sam.
On 11 March 2015 22:05:52 CET, Paul van der Vlis <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Facebook has released OpenBMC. I would call it an "IPMI server". There
>are free IPMI clients, but no free IPMI server implementation [1].
>
>In my opinion this is very good news for people who have a server in a
>datacenter. IPMI offers out-of-band management, e.g. a serial console
>over ethernet.
>
>At the moment, each vendor has it's own propriatary out-of-band system,
>I hope this will change now.
>
>https://github.com/facebook/openbmc
>https://code.facebook.com/posts/1601610310055392/introducing-openbmc-an-open-software-framework-for-next-generation-system-management/
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface
>
>With regards,
>Paul van der Vlis.
>
>[1] that's not completely true, but the people behind the only free
>implementation that was available, called CoreIPM, did not respond to
>anything. So far I know it's a dead project.
>
>
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>http://www.vandervlis.nl/
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