A disappearing Service Processor (2025)

 (oxide.computer)

28 points | by mooreds 20 hours ago

3 comments

  • Animats 19 hours ago
    Short version: "It turned out our chosen base address for the FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Card) bus had a default memory type of Normal Cached."

    They accidentally put an external non-memory device behind the cache. That's never going to work right, but might work some of the time.

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    • throwawaypath 13 hours ago
      An amateur embedded systems mistake in my opinion.
  • indigodaddy 17 hours ago
    Harkens me back to Sun/Sparc hardware and Solaris.
  • als0 19 hours ago
    For the uninitiated, Service Processor (SP) is just another kind of Baseboard Management Controller.
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    • wmf 17 hours ago
      Bryan's going to have an aneurysm.
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