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It'd be better to watch it boot over serial (which can also be done via SSH to the BMC) rather than this graphics port. the BMC chip (ast2500) has support for
by stewart-ibm 8y ago
It'd be better to watch it boot over serial (which can also be done via SSH to the BMC) rather than this graphics port.
the BMC chip (ast2500) has support for being a GPU for the host processor. It's a good old pretty dumb 2D framebuffer. Good for running an OS installer on.
Because (currently, we're working on it) boot time is more than a couple of seconds before we could bring up a discrete GPU, this connector will get you boot progress (and let you see an error) that occurs before we could fire up a PCIe GPU.