✧✦Catherine✦✧Apr 8

hey wanna see somethng cursed

one part of this NIC is downloading UEFI boot options from another part of this NIC over HTTP. (well, failing to do it for some reason)

you're welcome

Show threadRa (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩Apr 8
@whitequark oh no. oh no that implies multiple fucking processors
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧Apr 8
@freya yes it has two linuxes on it
Show threadRa (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩Apr 8
@whitequark why. what. what. what
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧Apr 8
@freya second is AST2600
Show threadRa (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩Apr 8
@whitequark what the fuuuuck, that's a wholeass BMC
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧Apr 8
@freya yup
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧Apr 8
@freya with 1 GB of RAM (256 MB of it is full of some crap)
Show threadAlexBApr 8
@whitequark @freya would not be surprised if that was (reserved for) the (host's) video framebuffer
Show threadRa (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩Apr 8
@vmp_ @whitequark yep, you would be exactly correct, the AST2600 is configured to prevent to be a Matrox MGA-G200 VGA chipset
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧Apr 8

@freya @vmp_ what

no that's not the case at all. what the hell are you talking about

Show threadRa (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩Apr 8
@whitequark @vmp_ the Aspeed AST2600 uses a hunk of ram to be a VGA chipset because it's used as a BMC in servers, right?
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧Apr 8
@freya @vmp_ first, you need barely any RAM for a Matrox framebuffer (the Matrox card you're talking about came with eight megabytes of it. today you could put that in on-die SRAM if you wanted). second, i'm talking about Linux-accessible RAM, on the Linux kernel, that I have root on
Show threadRa (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩
@whitequark @vmp_ oh!
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