@whitequark oh no. oh no that implies multiple fucking processors

@freya yes it has two linuxes on it

@whitequark why. what. what. what

@freya second is AST2600

@whitequark what the fuuuuck, that's a wholeass BMC

@freya yup

@freya with 1 GB of RAM (256 MB of it is full of some crap)

@whitequark @freya would not be surprised if that was (reserved for) the (host's) video framebuffer

@vmp_ @whitequark yep, you would be exactly correct, the AST2600 is configured to prevent to be a Matrox MGA-G200 VGA chipset

@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?

@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

@whitequark @vmp_ nvm ok I misunderstood

@freya @vmp_ also this thing doesn't connect the AST2600 over PCIe, it has a USB link to th main SoC

@whitequark @vmp_ oh what the fuck? what is the AST2600 even doing then?

@freya @vmp_ it lets you connect to the serial console of the main SoC. you can use minicom to configure the firmware. it does something funny with escape sequences so all of that barely works

@whitequark @vmp_ oh that is so fucking..... who designed this? who designed this and why.......

@freya @vmp_ the entire thing is like this top to bottom

@whitequark @vmp_ this is like..... this is like a hardware device designed by.... I was going to say designed bny AI but no AI wouldn't be like thjis, this is a hardware devcie designed like a node.js project

@freya @vmp_ ... this is actually kinda true yeah