On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 22:43 +0100 Martin Airs <martin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sunday 25 Aug 2013 13:20:05 Tom Horsley wrote: > > Meanwhile, I still can't find out what the heck the > > mei module is actually good for. > > http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/ > > Some examples of Intel AMT usage are: [snip list of technobabble] > that might tell us something useful, tho quite what I'm not sure As far as I understood, it is all about being able to control/adjust the machine's bios remotely. Most probably it is designed to work through ethernet or modem or whatever. It apparently features an internal-to-bios database with all sorts of stuff that can be configured or set up from within the bios screen itself, and in addition the access rights and security policies for remote access. And probably more. I can imagine this technology being useful if the OS would fail to boot and you do not have physical access to the box. Or it may be convenient for setting up headless machines, should you need to access their bios and don't have a keyboard and monitor at hand. As for the kernel module, my guess is that it probably provides a way to access this bios-database from withih Linux, and provide a handle for the user to read or modify it. HTH, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
