[Info-vax] RX2800 i4 iLO 3 firmware

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-06-22 kl. 16:17, skrev Dave Froble:
> On 6/22/2021 3:29 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2021-06-22 kl. 05:39, skrev Dave Froble:
>>> On 6/21/2021 10:33 PM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>>>> 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).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Since you're answering questions ...
>>>
>>> :-) >
>>> Is the iLO an HPe thing, or do others use it, or something similar?
>>>
>>> Does x86 VMS require an iLO?
>>>
>>> Or something similar?
>>>
>>> I'm aware that VSI is looking to the HPe Proliant systems, but I'm
>>> still holding an old grudge because of the 386 FP fiasco, and more
>>> recently against HP(e).  To be fair, I guess I should also hold a
>>> grudge for AMD not producing the motherboards that would work with
>>> Alpha, as I believe they agreed to do.
>>>
>>
>> I think your questions already have answers available to everyone.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Integrated_Lights-Out
> 
> Well, no.  There is the question of "Does x86 VMS require an iLO?"
> 

As far as I understand, iLO has nothing to do with the OS, it is a tool
to manage the server HW.