AMD Execution Thread [2025]

[Albuquerque]

I find it difficult to develop something so low level remotely. What if the kernel crashes all hardware?

This is where IPMI comes in. It's baseboard level, even below the firmware. If a Linux kernel crashes so hard as to hard-lock the box, you can still get in and power-cycle it. This is a very common technology on datacenter floors for decades because, so long as the box has literal power and the IPMI device has a network connection, you can do anything to the box as if you were physically sitting in front of it.

 

[arandomguy]

You misunderstood. I am saying George Hotz does little more than whine on twitter. Hardware reviewers review hardware, that is their 'product' and it ends up being marketing for the manufacturer anyways.

I'm being facetious with that "whine on twitter" framing but really at the core it's the same thing in that they're basically broadcasting to the public as a marketing exchange proposition. None of those groups inherently deserves considerations but ultimately it's the same cost/benefit (future benefit) analysis for the company to make.

I'll admit I'm really just poking at the idea that hardware reviewers derserve hardware samples and that they are a public service when in reality they're a business like any other and anything they do should just be viewed from a business angle.