公开(公告)号：US20170262388A1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-14

申请号：US15446558

申请日：2017-03-01

Applicant: MITAC COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

Inventor： Chi-Jung LIN ,  Chi-Hao KUAN ,  Hsiang-Jui HUANG

IPC: G06F13/16 ,  G06F13/40 ,  G06F13/42 ,  G06F13/20

CPC classification number: G06F13/1668 ,  G06F13/20 ,  G06F13/4068 ,  G06F13/4282 ,  G06F2213/0026

Abstract: A method for data transmission within a server that includes a processor, a main memory, a southbridge, a chipset, and a buffer, the chipset including a baseboard management controller (BMC), the method including: obtaining memory information about a segment of the peripheral memory allocated for a peripheral controller included in the chipset; transmitting a notifying command to the BMC indicating a data size of to-be-transmitted data associated with a booting operation of the server; transmitting at least a part of the to-be-transmitted data to the segment, according to the memory information; and transmitting a standby command to the BMC indicating that the part of the to-be-transmitted data has been stored in the segment.