Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 09:40:24 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Information needed on SMI Message-ID: <199812211740.JAA02386@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Dec 1998 10:26:52 MST." <199812211726.KAA02738@harmony.village.org>
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> Greetings,
> I'm looking for information on the SMI bios stuff. I don't
> mean Intel's SMBios, but the SMI in "Power management: APM, SMI" that
> comes up when I boot my machine. My web searches have turned up the
> Intel spec a lot, but nothing on SMI itself (except that this or that
> computer support it).
SMI is "system management interrupt", it causes the processor to enter
SMM ("system management mode"). You'll find documentation on it in the
Intel processor manuals, IIRC from the '486 onwards.
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