On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 2:40 AM, Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bast...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Aron Xu <a...@debian.org> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Tollef Fog Heen <tfh...@err.no> wrote: >>> ]] Aron Xu >>> >>>> > IPMI would be lovely, but I'm not sure we can locate a board right now >>>> > with >>>> > that - so, we may have to fix remote management with a remotely >>>> > controlled >>>> > power/reset box - I believe they exist (something else I've been looking >>>> > into). If the DSA already use some then I'd be interested to hear which >>>> > :-) >>>> >>>> I don't know if IPMI is available, but there is certain kind of PCI >>>> device that can help with remotely power on/off the machine controlled >>>> by SMS. I'm curious if DSA think IPMI is mandatory for buildd and >>>> porterbox. >>> >>> We would very much like «reasonable remote access». Whether that's IPMI >>> onto a BMC or serial console which can interact with the boot loader and >>> a network-enabled power strip is less important. Of course, having nice >>> features like mounting of ISOs over HTTP and such is a nice bonus, but >>> not a requirement. >>> >>> We haven't really talked about how and when it should be enforced, but >>> I'm reluctant to take on more porter hardware that lacks reasonable >>> remote management. >>> >> >> If we can find a way of letting Loongson 3A board supports remote >> console then you are able to re-install the system because PMON have >> networking support and can boot the system from tftp. Power control >> can be done by hacking the on-board power button pins. > > It could be done trivally from a chip arm card. Using socat from a tty > to a ssh tunnel > see http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/doc/socat-ttyovertcp.txt
Looks really cool, and I think it's doable to support power control like what you've suggested already. Cheers, Aron Xu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAMr=8w6R+x2+bQ5JWao_fzynnjHt4Nf=rng+edfpjrk01l+...@mail.gmail.com
