Nekonomicon - IBM PowerPC 405GP Remote Supervisor Adapter

ivelegacy
From Italy
Who joined Jan. 4, 2015, 5:12 a.m.

Wrote the following at Jan. 16, 2016, 6:29 a.m...

IBM Power PC xSeries Remote Supervisor Adapter II Module PCI 66MHz

Manufacturer: IBM
FRU/P/N: 73P9265
Ports: USB, RJ-45, VGA, 56-watt AC Power Adapter

Features:

Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
Improved keyboard and mouse support
Remote firmware update and access to critical server settings
Graphical console redirection with accelerated graphics
Remote Drive Support

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Someone has experienced with this module

?

I'd like to know how it works in details, low level details, e.g. what does it do on PCI, and if it can stand alone

I wish I could enter into the vegetable garden of William Gibson , on the right of a director, to decide how a film is ultimately released for public viewing, but I am not a nor Cyberpunk writer neither a dude in Hollywood , and my English still looks like an old rusty trailer which needs a fix-up, so my personal wonderland begins with a pill ... tumbling down the rabbit hole , where the sky above the router port is the color of television, tuned to a dead channel and some gears still need a debugger there.

kev009
From Tempe, Arizona
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Wrote the following at Jan. 18, 2016, 12:04 a.m...

I would assume there is some proprietary stuff, either connectors or bus protocol, that give this adapter control over power/keyboard/video/mouse of the x86 xserver. It must run an RTOS or cut down Linux depending on age that serve up the HTTP and IPMI capabilities. It's basically a single board computer.. a computer in your computer the same way IPMI and other OOB systems are. If that sounds scary, it is.

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pentium
From Kamloops, BC
Who joined Aug. 28, 2006, 6:29 p.m.

Wrote the following at Jan. 18, 2016, 8:35 a.m...

I know for a fact that it or one of its relatives plug into my x220 server. The software is out there but there's a ribbon cable that needs to run form the card to the board.

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ClassicHasClass
Donor
From Sunny So Cal
Who joined July 25, 2012, 7:12 p.m.

Wrote the following at Jan. 18, 2016, 11:46 a.m...

Does it act like ASMI or something else?

smit happens.

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ivelegacy
From Italy
Who joined Jan. 4, 2015, 5:12 a.m.

Wrote the following at Jan. 18, 2016, 1:30 p.m...

on Ebay I found a few of these board for 20..30 euro each

Ironically Cerberus is developed around 405GP cores (there are 4 nodes, each node is 405GP), and with a similar idea, even if the "Remote Supervisor" feature is implemented by a little && stand alone linux MIPS board

I am impressed by IBM

I wish I could enter into the vegetable garden of William Gibson , on the right of a director, to decide how a film is ultimately released for public viewing, but I am not a nor Cyberpunk writer neither a dude in Hollywood , and my English still looks like an old rusty trailer which needs a fix-up, so my personal wonderland begins with a pill ... tumbling down the rabbit hole , where the sky above the router port is the color of television, tuned to a dead channel and some gears still need a debugger there.