>Looks cool, but I'm pretty sure that as an end user I would not feel comfortable reprogramming the board management controller of a $5000 dollar piece of equipment.
I don't think the point is that they expect you to start tearing into the code, it's more so that you can feel comfortable that if you have any questions at all about the code running on it, you can rebuild from source and reflash to verify yourself.
I also may be underselling the ability of this to harm your system, but I'm not sure what you'd possibly do that wouldn't be reversible. Bricking the BMC itself means replacing the BMC (although if you can flash it I think it'd be difficult to COMPLETELY brick) - maybe a motherboard if they happen to fully integrate it but that doesn't look like the plan at this point looking at the size of the add-on board.
I don't think the point is that they expect you to start tearing into the code, it's more so that you can feel comfortable that if you have any questions at all about the code running on it, you can rebuild from source and reflash to verify yourself.
I also may be underselling the ability of this to harm your system, but I'm not sure what you'd possibly do that wouldn't be reversible. Bricking the BMC itself means replacing the BMC (although if you can flash it I think it'd be difficult to COMPLETELY brick) - maybe a motherboard if they happen to fully integrate it but that doesn't look like the plan at this point looking at the size of the add-on board.