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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2018
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., New Tech Park, SG;
LENOVO Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) PTE. LTD, New Tech Park, SG;
Abstract
An apparatus for providing a BMC via an M.2 slot includes a presence module that determines whether a baseboard management controller ('BMC') is coupled to an M.2 expansion slot, the M.2 expansion slot configured to also receive a non-BMC device, a bus module that enables communication between a serial peripheral interface ('SPI') bus and the M.2 expansion slot in response to the BMC being present in the M.2 expansion slot, and a signal conversion module that receives management control signals from the BMC via an unused pin-out of the M.2 expansion slot, in response to the BMC being present in the M.2 expansion slot, and transfers the management control signals to the SPI bus.