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From: Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>,
	cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [patch v3] powerpc: add PMI driver for cell blade
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:39:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070214093941.08ec4c7f@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17874.22587.981499.55058@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:30:51 +1100
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:

> Christian Krafft writes:
>=20
> > From: Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com>
> > This patch adds driver code for the PMI device found in future IBM prod=
ucts.
> > PMI stands for "Platform Management Interrupt" and is a way to communic=
ate
> > with the BMC. It provides bidirectional communication with a low latenc=
y.
>=20
> Thanks for telling us what PMI is, but what's a BMC?
>=20
> Paul.

BMC stands for Baseboard Management Controller:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseboard_management_controller

--=20
Mit freundlichen Gr=FCssen,
kind regards,

Christian Krafft
IBM Systems & Technology Group,=20
Linux Kernel Development
IT Specialist

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-14  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-09 17:35 [patch 0/1] pmi: initial version Christian Krafft
2007-02-09 17:45 ` [patch 1/1] " Christian Krafft
2007-02-09 22:29   ` Nathan Lynch
2007-02-12  9:12     ` Christian Krafft
2007-02-13 13:34       ` [Cbe-oss-dev] [patch v2] " Christian Krafft
2007-02-13 18:44         ` [Cbe-oss-dev] [patch v3] " Christian Krafft
2007-02-13 18:48           ` [Cbe-oss-dev] [patch v3] powerpc: add PMI driver for cell blade Christian Krafft
2007-02-13 19:20             ` Christian Krafft
2007-02-13 19:28             ` Christian Krafft
2007-02-14  0:30               ` Paul Mackerras
2007-02-14  8:39                 ` Christian Krafft [this message]
2007-02-14 10:22                   ` Paul Mackerras
2007-02-14 13:07                     ` Christian Krafft
2007-02-14 13:09                       ` Christian Krafft
2007-02-15  7:06                         ` Heiko J Schick
2007-02-15 10:50                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-15 19:19                             ` Segher Boessenkool

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