Network controller sharing between SMM firmware and OS drivers
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Aug 15, 2017
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Mar 11, 2014
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Mar 21, 2013
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A mechanism for reducing the cost of providing network-based remote platform management by allowing system firmware to communicate with a remote platform administrator or process by sharing a NIC that is also used for normal network traffic is discussed. The dual use of the NIC reduces the cost of remote platform management by removing the need for a secondary controller or CPU core on the computing device that is dedicated to remote management tasks. Additionally, performance in the computing device improves as a byproduct of a CPU core or thread not being dedicated to the management task and instead being available for handling of other tasks.
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