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by jebr224 1133 days ago
It is complicated.

AMI sells a bmc software stack, https://www.ami.com/megarac/ Intel and small manufacturer were unhappy, about always paying the ami tax. So intel created openbmc, as a hedge against ami's monopoly for small manufacturers. I have heard Openbmc has user from facebook, google, ibm, bytdance, and ali.

Dell owns their own stack in idrac, I have heard most of their systems are nuvoton based. I am suspect dell pays some big bucks to keep their systems at feature parity with the other options, and they view it as a an investment.

There are also silicon devices on the motherboard, that have drivers that are not able to be shared. So it not surprising that companies don't share source in a way that would be useful.

If you wanted a system that as a bmc that could be tested try the asrock-e3c246d4c, it looks like there are hobbyist, that have it running coreboot, and openbmc. (impressively)

https://9esec.io/blog/coreboot-on-the-asrock-e3c246d4c/