Kontron AM4204 - Manual (Page 47)

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5. Software Setup
Software on the AM4204 includes the following parts:
• Bootloader
• OS (rootFS, kernel)
• MMC FW
5.1 MMC Firmware
The Module Management Controller (MMC) is a crucial component of any AMC module. Besides acting as a
regular IPMI management controller (sensor monitoring, event generation, etc.), it also provides an
interface to all necessary data related to module power requirements and implemented interfaces (E-
Keying). Further, it plays an active role in the module hot swap state management. The carrier IPMI
Controller (IPMC) communicates with the MMC using the local IPMB (IPMB-L) bus. In an ATCA/AMC
environment, it is the IPMC that actually turns on/off module (payload) power. However, before the IPMC
enables the module payload power, various criteria must be satisfied by both the carrier and the module,
including handle switch state, power requirements and capabilities, matching interfaces, current module hot
swap state, and any other special conditions as specified by the Shelf Manager policy.
5.1.1 Related Documentation
IPMI specifications: ( http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/spec.htm )
• IPMI-Intelligent Platform Management Interface Specification. Second Generation v2.0, February 12,
2004 (part)
• IPMI- Platform Management FRU Information Storage Definition v1.0, Document Revision 1.1,
September 1999
PICMG specifications: http://www.picmg.org
• PICMG® AMC.0 R2.0 - Advanced Mezzanine Card Base Specification
• PICMG® AMC.1 R1.0 - PCI Express and Advanced Switching on AdvancedMC
• PICMG® AMC.2 R1.0 – AMC Gigabit Ethernet/10 Gigabit XAUI Ethernet
Open tools documentation
• Ipmitool documentation: http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net
• OpenIPMI documentation: http://www.openipmi.sourceforge.net
The AM4204 is built in accordance to the AMC.0 R2.0 specification, and is also AMC.1 and AMC.2 compliant
and is easily managed via IPMI v1.5/v2.0.