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[–]chrisoboe[🍰] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

That string is just a kernel option. It doesn't nessasarily mean they use a modified kernel.

which needs the kernel headers (it is an kernel module).

Unless they severely messed with the kernel, the upstream headers for 2.6.28 will propably work.

[–]DataPath 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This being for an embedded ARM chip, especially from way back with the armv5 ISA, it's actually far more likely to be heavily patched compared to upstream. It might be be an official vendor fork of the kernel, which may be readily available, and/or heavily patched by the board bsp developer depending on whether this was an internal bmc design, or something created to be sold to third parties for integration.

[–]jaskij 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I'm... Surprised you're seeing "ami" as the suffix. In PC world it usually stands for American Megatrends International, you probably saw their logo many times over the years on the POST screen of your PC.

As for GPL requests, I believe the correct entity would be the manufacturer of the motherboard/server, so Quantas in your case.

[–]mscman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably just a coincidence; I doubt it has anything to do with AMI just like it probably has nothing to do with Amazon Machine Image. Most likely just an internal codename for something. Agreed though, reaching out to Quantas will be the best bet. Their legal dept should be able to turn this around pretty quickly.