Post #1974043

Skipping on documenting deployments is the worst type of technical debt I spent half a day just documenting what hardware my new lab has and how it set up. It would be an hour or so, if vendors published a bit more than zero shit on their websites. Like this motherboard has ITE IT8613E Super I/O controller, that is not supported by mainline kernel and has no datasheet available at all. I don’t know why PWM and thermal control is so cursed on motherboards. Kudos to a person who maintains (and tries to upstream) IT87 driver, at least I can manually control fans. This is second time I had to write “middleware” to adjust PWM. On previous lab server fan controller was exposed only to BMC own OS, so I had to adjust them using terrible Gigabyte implementation of Redfish API.