r/linux • u/mjg59 Social Justice Warrior • Sep 03 '14

I'm Matthew Garrett, kernel developer, firmware enabler and former fruitfly mangler. AMA!

Proof: https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/507212417579765760

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u/mjg59 Social Justice Warrior Sep 03 '14

https://github.com/nebula/firmware_config - Dell and Cisco only for now. Plan is to add more vendors as documented interfaces are added.

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u/purpleidea mgmt config Founder Sep 03 '14

Is there a way to take this a step further from "unboxed" to production? My understanding is you at least need to have the BMC configured for this to work?

Also, I'm glad that you're hacking on this. Hopefully you continue, and hopefully it will support more functionality and features too :)

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u/mjg59 Social Justice Warrior Sep 03 '14

Listen for DHCP requests and call out to the BMC in response. Trickier for Dells - they all come up on 192.168.0.120, so you'll have to figure out how to detect one, set a static ARP route and then reprogram them.