Itanium: the Great X86 Replacement that Never Was
@thomholwerda Have you seen this? --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K-IfiDmp_w
#Intel: Shouldn't we just extend x86 into 64-bit?
Also Intel: No, let us waste $Billions restarting from scratch.
Nothing can possibly go wrong.
Today, we point and laugh at #Itanium:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K-IfiDmp_w
@benjojo There’s an IPMI brute-force around, if that's not what you're doing here.
CVE-2013-4786
https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04197764
This is reportedly unfixable on various HP servers.
“HPSBHF02981 rev.4 - HPE Integrated Lights-Out 2, 3, 4, 5 (iLO 2, iLO 3, iLO 4, and iLO 5) and HPE Superdome Flex RMC - IPMI 2.0 RCMP+ Authentication Remote Password Hash Vulnerability (RAKP)”
TL;DR: ask nicely for a weakly-hashed IPMI password, then crack it offline.
On at least some of these boxes, the iLO command that blocks this access:
MP:CM> sa -lanipmi d
I didn't realize that x86_64 went back that far. I'm guessing it was AMD-only at the time, as Intel was still thinking that #Itanium hung the moon. XD
“Athlon 64: How AMD Turned The Tables On Intel”, Dave Farquhar (https://dfarq.homeip.net/athlon-64-how-amd-turned-the-tables-on-intel/).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45376605
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/idcny5/athlon_64_how_amd_turned_tables_on_intel
A nice account of how #Intel spent far too much time & money with #HP on the doomed #Itanium 64-bit #CPU, only to be beaten by #AMD with #Athlon (with help from #Microsoft):
“The Long Mode Chronicles”, Phil Park (https://computerparkitecture.substack.com/p/the-long-mode-chronicles).
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