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 -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
