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A disappearing Service Processor (2025)

25 pointsby mooredsyesterday at 8:05 PM6 commentsview on HN

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Animatsyesterday at 9:32 PM

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.

indigodaddyyesterday at 11:11 PM

Harkens me back to Sun/Sparc hardware and Solaris.

als0yesterday at 9:35 PM

For the uninitiated, Service Processor (SP) is just another kind of Baseboard Management Controller.

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