Are you sure of that? One most of the systems I've used with IPMI functionality (oracle and supermicro), the BMC resides in a separate chip with it's own proces

Are you sure of that? One most of the systems I've used with IPMI functionality (oracle and supermicro), the BMC resides in a separate chip with it's own processor and RAM. https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Nuvoton_WPCM450R_IPMI_Chip_with_ATEN-Software https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Nuvoton_WPCM450R_IPMI_C... Oracle uses these: https://www.aspeedtech.com/products.php?fPath=20&rId=376 https://www.aspeedtech.com/products.php?fPath=20&rId=376