"Server platforms: experiment with your expensive hardware too!" - Jeremy Kerr (LCA 2021 Online)

Jeremy Kerr

https://lca2021.linux.org.au/schedule/presentation/73/

We love to disassemble, rework, reconfigure and improve our consumer devices,
but tend to leave the more "serious" server platforms alone, with their warranties
intact. Most servers include at least one embedded Linux system for platform
control, which we can modify to suit almost any purpose. This talk brings the
concept of hackable hardware into the server space.

Recent server platforms have a huge scope for customisation, and most are built
on an open source core. With just a little background on conventional server
hardware designs, and the customisable components they're built from, we have
the exciting opportunity to adapt most server platforms to our own purpose -
whether it be tweaking the management interfaces to better suit a deployment
environment, implementing custom functionality for specific workload models, or
full-scale replacement of platform firmware.

This technical talk covers a background on common server design conventions,
plus the specific hardware, software, firmware and tooling that you'll likely
encounter in this space. This will provide a background for experimenting with
your own devices, and take warranty-voiding to a whole new (enterprise!) level.

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Sun Jan 24 13:30:00 2021 at Rusty R. Hall

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