: Usually available in 9.0°, 10.5°, and 12.0°.
The era of treating the service processor as a dumb, slow serial device is over. With SP Driver 2.0, the BMC becomes a true peer—a secure, intelligent co-processor that the OS can trust and leverage without fear. sp driver 2.0
Because SP Driver 2.0 can drive real-time actions, it includes an embedded ethics module that checks for unintended consequences: gaming, bias against protected groups, or violation of regulatory constraints. Any proposed intervention passes through this shield. : Usually available in 9
| Metric | SP Driver v1.x (IPMI) | SP Driver 2.0 (Redfish/PLDM) | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | (all 96 sensors) | 2.3 seconds | 0.11 seconds | | Host CPU overhead (per second of polling) | 8.2% of a core | 0.4% of a core | | BMC firmware update time (over PCIe) | 14 minutes | 2.1 minutes | | Attack surface (network-accessible) | Yes (virtual NIC) | No (pure PCIe channel) | | Recovery from hung OS | Requires remote power cycle | Driver-local emergency shell over BMC | Because SP Driver 2