Python based AMT developer toolkit now available

May 21, 2008 – 9:53 pm

We are pleased to announce immediate availability of the python based AMT toolkit.

The Linux AMT DTK provides an easy way to build AMT enabled application based on the Intel AMT SDK and provides sample applications that demonstrate how the stack can be used in real life applications. This DTK is not a port of the Intel AMT DTK by Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) which is primarily for Windows and based mostly on C#, it is however inspired by the windows AMT DTK and current sample applications have the same name as in the C# windows DTK.
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Creating a Linux Rescue Image for IDE Redirection - Part 1

May 15, 2008 – 8:42 pm

IDE-Redirect allows an AMT enabled system to boot from an image, floppy, CD or DVD device which is located in the system running a management application. Usually, images booted remotely would be used to rescue the system from a fatal crash or in case of virus infection (if windows is the main OS installed). While many rescue systems are available for windows, nothing really beats Linux as a rescue tool, for both Windows and Linux systems. Linux has a large number of application designed for system diagnosis and system rescue that both target Linux and Windows. Read the rest of this entry »

MEI Driver and Kernel > 2.6.23

April 21, 2008 – 12:43 pm

If you are trying to compile the released MEI driver (HECI) driver on new kernels, most likely compilation will fail due to incompatibility in the Makefile.

For the latest release of the driver that work on most recent kernels and that come with support for udev and additional bug fixes try the development version in the subversion repository.

The latest version of the driver does not support AMT 1.0 mode (also known as legacy mode). If your application uses AMT 1.0 mode, you will have to stick with the old version for now.

New Release of Intel AMT Open Source Drivers and Tools

February 11, 2008 – 12:51 pm

We have updated all tools and drivers to 3.2.0.24 which is a bug fix release. Files can be downloaded from Sourceforge.

MEI Driver submitted to Linux Kernel

October 24, 2007 – 1:41 pm

The MEI driver (aka HECI) has been submitted to the linux kernel as a candidate for inclusion in one of the upcoming stable releases. We got some feedback from the kernel community and we are working on resolving these issues which has been described as trivial.

More details about the patch and the discussion thread can be found here.

Official Release of local host Intel® AMT tools and drivers is now Available

August 24, 2007 – 1:42 pm

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the final release (3.1.0.31) of local host Intel® AMT tools and drivers for Linux and open-source in general. The final release can be download from sourceforge.

Beta Release of local host Intel® AMT tools is now Available

July 24, 2007 – 1:51 pm

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of 3 additional local host tools to expand Intel® AMT support on Linux and open-source in general: