TA-1125: Fail to Initialize the Operating System Video Driver for the ASPEED* Base Management Controller (BMC)

TA-1125: Fail to initialize the operating system video driver for the ASPEED* Base Management Controller (PDF)
Intel® has discovered an issue in which the host fails to initialize the operating system video driver for the ASPEED* Baseboard Management Controller (BMC). Headless or remote management environments are not affected.

Intel has confirmed that the failure has no bearing on system performance; it only impacts local video graphics. In detail, when the operating system loads, the OS-embedded ASPEED* video driver is not able to access a portion of the BMC memory space. Therefore, the process stalls.

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Date: August 2017

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Intel developed the Installation guides for Windows* Server 2016, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux*, and SUSE* Linux* Enterprise Server with step-by-step instructions to work around this issue and to load the updated ASPEED* video driver v1.03. These documents are already included in every System Update Package (firmware) release.

Affected products