RFI: Ethernet driver ported from Linux

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2007-Apr-21 03:20:08 +0400, Yar Tikhiy <yar at comp.chem.msu.su> wrote:
>components forming the main system (CPU, RAM, bus, etc) it contains
>an additional small embedded-style computer (seems to be m68k based)

PPC actually.

>with the role of monitoring and managing the main system hardware
>independently from the host OS, which can be overloaded with heavy
>tasks, unstable, or unresponsive.

It provides fairly standard lights-out management access from a
dedicated NIC:  serial console (using conserver), remote reset and
power control as well as system/environment monitoring (eg the CPU
fans run at >16,000RPM).

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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