designs/mctp/mctp.md

7 Currently, we have a few different methods of communication between host and
10 started to hit some of the limitations of IPMI (for example, we have need
15 platforms provide. Then, on top of MCTP, we have the opportunity to move to
23 these; we currently have BT and KCS (both defined as part of the IPMI 2.0
26 Some efforts of improving the hardware transport mechanism of IPMI have been
68 - Have a simple serialisation and deserialisation format, to enable
69   implementations in host firmware, which have widely varying runtime
72 - Allow different hardware channels, as we have a wide variety of target
75 - Be usable over simple hardware implementations, but have a facility for higher
99 There have been two main alternatives to an MCTP implementation in OpenBMC:
120 duplicate the work we have in IPMI handlers.