[geeks] Sun: SunFire V20z serial port processor

[Lionel Peterson]

You know the big OEMs all make private label 1u servers, right? I seriously doubt Sun started with a blank page and designed their 1u x86 servers 'from scratch'.

They might have, but since they viewed them as commodity boxes, I tend to think they 'tweaked' an existing board, wrote drivers (as needed) for integrated subsystems and hoped to cash in on high margins and consulting services.

Ken

> On Feb 3, 2023, at 19:55, Mouse via geeks <geeks at sunhelp.org> wrote:
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>>> [...SunFire V20z...SP...Linux...is hardware documented?...]
>> I don't think Sun designed/built their own x86 motherboards - the low-end de$
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> This is not an any-end desktop machine; it's a 1U rackmount.
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>> Is there a reason you want to alter the operation of the iDRAC/iLO control b$
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> I'm not sure I do - though, if it's doing "browser" anything, that
> _will_ get disabled, one way or another, before it goes anywhere near a
> live network jack.  So far I have not seen caught it doing anything I
> object to, except not connecting the back-panel connector to the host
> by default.  But, until it's running an OS and software I built, I
> won't trust it to be doing what - and only what - I think it's doing.
> Too many people have been caught leaving backdoors in such things for
> me to trust that _this_ time there are no backdoors.
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> Besides, it sounds like an interesting challenge, if the documentation
> is available.
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> And, on principle, I'd rather my machine run what _I_ want it to run
> anyway.
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