[Openipmi-developer] Where is openIPMI running?

[Stephen Cheng]

hi ALL,

I'm working on an ATCA carrier board. we have an IPMC (2 AVR MCUs) on board. the payload which implement main function of the board is based on freescale's MPC8541, the payload interface is UART.

|--------------------------|
|  Payload (MPC8541)        |
|--------------------------|
        |        |        |
        UART        Reset        Power
        |        |        |
|--------------------------|
|  IPMC (AVR)                        |
|--------------------------|

The ATCA spec does not define the payload interface, and leaves it entirely to the board implementer.

My question is, where should I utilizing openIPMI in this system?

My point of view is openIPMI was designed to aid running at ShMC (shelf management controller) and IPMC( or BMC), not Payload.

but my boss insist we need to run openIPMI on MPC8541, which already has the MontaVista Linux running.
his reason is: openIPMI is a module of MontaVista, ......

am I wrong?

if I am correct, how can I persuade my boss?

any comments will be appreciated!

Thanks & Best Regards,
Stephen