Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI

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gjvc ◴[21 Oct 25 14:14 UTC] No.45656086[source]▶

the name "ILO" clashes with "Integrated Lights-Out" management as used by (or was used by) some server hardware vendors.

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1. imglorp ◴[21 Oct 25 14:52 UTC] No.45656570[source]▶

>>45656086 #

    IPMI - standard
    DRAC - Dell
    iLOM - Sun/Oracle
    iLO - HP
    IMM - IBM

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2. buildbot ◴[21 Oct 25 15:38 UTC] No.45657140[source]▶

>>45656570 (TP) #

XSCF - Fujitsu/Oracle SPARC

(I wonder how they got that acronym)

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3. kragen ◴[21 Oct 25 16:08 UTC] No.45657520[source]▶

>>45657140 #

It looks like they generated random four-letter combinations until they found one that wasn't used.

4. imglorp ◴[21 Oct 25 16:54 UTC] No.45658115[source]▶

>>45657140 #

Possibly eXtended System Control Facility.

5. p_l ◴[21 Oct 25 16:56 UTC] No.45658150[source]▶

>>45656570 (TP) #

  BMC - vendor neutral
  RedFish - Current DMTF standard replacing IPMI
  ALOM - sometimes encountered in the wild as part of iLO :O
  HMC - IBM on non-x86 systems (except OpenPower), not compatible with anything else
  RSA - used to be IBM
  IMC - Cisco

6. buildbot ◴[21 Oct 25 18:59 UTC] No.45660073[source]▶

>>45657140 #

Ooo also, there is the RMC in some HP Alphaservers

7. LargoLasskhyfv ◴[21 Oct 25 21:18 UTC] No.45661849[source]▶

>>45657140 #

eXtended System Configuration Facility?

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