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Have you played around with OpenBMC or any of the open-sourced BMC firmware alternatives?

ETA: specifically on older server/workstation boards instead of the stock firwmare

I've been interested but the idea of SPI flasher recovery has always meant I've not bothered actually trying. Maybe I will finally on one of these old boards I have lying around..

Same here; trying to get OpenBMC flashed onto older motherboards can be a rabbit-hole. I generally throw an IP KVM on top if I really need remote control and can't settle on just SSH and a remote power cycle if that fails.

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