On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 08:49:31AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 01:03 +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote: >> FWIW, talking to a colleague, he made a comment that some of the text >> above is wrong: >> >> AENs are sent from NIC to BMC. Not from Host to BMC. > >Just a typo in the commit message thankfully ;-) >
Yeah, the AENs are sent from NIC to BMC and the code follows it. The code is tested on IBM's openPower server where a BMC (ARM system) and host ( Power system and NIC) are included. So the host, the far end and NIC can be regarded as equivalents. >> The traffic between a BMC and a NIC is over RBT if it is formatted as >> NC-SI packets. This is not over network traffic.... > It's correct. The figure included in the commit log might give the illusion that NCSI packets are sent over network traffic. Thanks, Gavin
