From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 21 08:12:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6E2416A401 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:12:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c220-239-3-125.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.3.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E97B13C4B0 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:12:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l3L8CBdI016967; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:12:11 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l3L8CAN7016966; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:12:10 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:12:10 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: Yar Tikhiy Message-ID: <20070421081210.GK5257@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <1176096815.4064.6.camel@hiro.auspc.com.au> <20070409.222300.-1350498722.imp@bsdimp.com> <20070417171622.GB95814@comp.chem.msu.su> <1176858032.4426.3.camel@hiro.auspc.com.au> <20070418074455.GD36635@comp.chem.msu.su> <1176948890.4175.50.camel@hiro.auspc.com.au> <20070419075604.GB60301@comp.chem.msu.su> <1176972570.4177.1.camel@hiro.auspc.com.au> <4627C438.8000304@elischer.org> <20070420232008.GB52136@comp.chem.msu.su> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AkbCVLjbJ9qUtAXD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070420232008.GB52136@comp.chem.msu.su> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer Subject: Re: RFI: Ethernet driver ported from Linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:12:44 -0000 --AkbCVLjbJ9qUtAXD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2007-Apr-21 03:20:08 +0400, Yar Tikhiy 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). --=20 Peter Jeremy --AkbCVLjbJ9qUtAXD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGKcda/opHv/APuIcRAt2YAJ90vvxiqZVHHBDdeR3v7AdDcktWdwCfetgv 922nhzKThLk38RZwrh/moNA= =2WFI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AkbCVLjbJ9qUtAXD--