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Subject: How could this work?
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 13:07:30 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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I was looking at the libretto confin program that was just ported to
FreeBSD via the ports mechanism.  It has code that looks like:

	movl	8(%ebp),%eax
	movl	12(%ebp),%ebx
	movl	16(%ebp),%ecx
	inb	$0x0b2,%al		/* invoke SMI */

How the heck can that work?  I'm confused...

Warner

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