[Info-vax] RX2800 i4 iLO 3 firmware

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 6/21/2021 8:03 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 6/21/2021 6:34 PM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>> On 6/21/2021 5:36 PM, Hans Bachner wrote:
>>
>>> Iirc most everything (but not all) for x86 (BIOS, ILO,
>>> Windows-/Linux-/VMware-related) is freely available. Not so for
>>> Itanium (or Alpha).
>>
>> Yes, iLO and BIOS are freely available for X86, but not the rest of the
>> firmware that is on the system.
>>
> 
> Competition can be a wonderful thing.
> 
> Not knowledgeable about newest servers, wonder what AMD has to compare with iLO, 
> if anything?

I wasn't clear in my response; I did not mean to draw a distinction between the 
Proliant Intel vs. the Proliant AMD series.

iLO is motherboard CPU-agnostic; it's the same iLO for a DL380 and DL385 (the 
nomenclature is such that for the Proliant line, the xx5 variant is with an
AMD CPU).

-- 
                  -- Rob