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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear guys,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Currently, we have some confusion regarding the eSPI OOB channel. We can encapsulate MCTP SMBus packets on this channel to enable OOB communication between the BMC and our Processor.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">However, neither the eSPI Specification, the MCTP over SMBus specification, nor the AST2600-related datasheets and materials explicitly state whether additional software-level handshaking based
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">on the MCTP over SMBus protocol is required between the BMC and the Processor's eSPI Master before communication.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">I’d like to ask for your advice, is it necessary to implement software-level handshaking for eSPI OOB based MCTP transmission?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(ie. build EID routing table, set/get EID and etc)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">BR,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Andrew(Andy) Zhang<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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