Manageability Engine Interface Driver

Introduction

Note: This information is about the development version of the driver available in subversion.

The Intel® Manageability Engine Interface driver allows applications to access the Management Engine and Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) firmware via the host interface (as opposed to a network interface).

The Intel® Manageability Engine Interface driver is meant to be used by the Local Manageability Service. When the Intel AMT machine is in Legacy Mode, the Intel® Manageability Engine Interface driver functions as the KCS driver did for Intel AMT Release 1.0.

Messages from the Intel® Manageability Engine Interface driver will be sent to the system's log (i.e. /var/log/messages).

Building and installing the Intel® Manageability Engine Interface driver

In order to build and install the Intel® Manageability Engine Interface driver, call "make install" from the src directory. This builds the Intel® Manageability Engine Interface driver and installs it.

Call "make uninstall" to uninstall and remove the Intel® Manageability Engine Interface driver.

In order to load and use the driver call "modprobe heci" or "insmod heci.ko".

The Intel® Manageability Engine Interface driver may also be built and installed manually, by first calling "make", then "insmod heci.ko". Remove by calling "rmmod heci.ko".

Accessing The Fimrware via Intel® Manageability Engine Interface driver

Once the Intel® Manageability Engine Interface driver is running, an application can open a file to it, connect to an application on the firmware side, and send and receive messages to that application.