Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [patch v3] powerpc: add PMI driver for cell blade

From: Christian Krafft <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:39:41 +0100

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:30:51 +1100
Paul Mackerras <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Christian Krafft writes:
> 
> > From: Christian Krafft <[email-masked]>
> > This patch adds driver code for the PMI device found in future IBM products.
> > PMI stands for "Platform Management Interrupt" and is a way to communicate
> > with the BMC. It provides bidirectional communication with a low latency.
> 
> Thanks for telling us what PMI is, but what's a BMC?
> 
> Paul.

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

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Mit freundlichen Grüssen,
kind regards,

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