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Chapter 3 BIOS Operation
3.2.11 ASF Configuration
ASF (Alert Standard Format) provides standards-based alerting and remote control.
Both the alerting and remote control capabilities of ASF are hardware-based and
local to the networking solution on managed systems. This allows these solutions
CPU and OS independence, providing a persistent connection with the management
console.
3.2.12 MPS Configuration
This feature is only applicable to multiprocessor motherboards as it specifies the ver-
sion of the Multi-Processor Specification (MPS) that the motherboard will use. The
MPS is a specification by which PC manufacturers design and build Intel architecture
systems with two or more processors.