* Bill Rugolsky Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 11:24:41PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > well, it's a PIO inb() op i think, and could thus in theory trigger SMM > > BIOS code. > > Is there any easy way to disable more SMM stuff than "noacpi"? not that i know of. Point of SMM is to make it hard to disable by OSs. They are a kind of hypervisor mode for the purposes of seemless hardware soft-extensions, from the days when it wasnt yet fashionable to call them virtualization ;) > If push comes to shove, I'll go all the way and just install LinuxBIOS > on the damn thing. Though I'm sure that will be a chore. i think it might be easier to try the new sata_nv.c driver first. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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