[LinuxBIOS] AMD Geode LX support for LinuxBIOS
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Thu May 3 20:37:55 CEST 2007
On 03.05.2007 19:45, Marc Jones wrote:
> In the legacy/APM world power management and fan control were mostly
> done in SMM.
>
> In the ACPI world that has been moved to the OS. Proper drivers and
> applications and SMM all play a part but SMM's role is greatly reduced
> and latency much less of an issue. You might also want to look at the
> OpenIPMI project to see how some of this is being done now.
> http://openipmi.sourceforge.net/IPMI.pdf
Thanks for the pointer! However, the paper suggests that an extra
controller/processor is needed for IPMI. Do we have such a thing
on recent x86 mainboards?
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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