<clever>
sphalerite: you can think of the BMC like shoving a raspberry pi into an x86 server, and then wiring the GPIO up to the power button and a few misc things
<clever>
and it draws relatively little power, so its just left running, 24/7
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<andi->
It also does such things like KVM
<clever>
yeah, it can peek into the framebuffer ram of the GPU and find the resolution control registers, and rip frames out of the video card
<clever>
and ive also seen one emulate a cdrom drive, allowing you to just select a .iso file in an activex (*gag*) applet and boot from it