Re: [LinuxBIOS] AMD Geode LX support for LinuxBIOS

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

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