From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 21 09:55:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA26106 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 09:55:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles130.castles.com [208.214.165.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA26095 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 09:55:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA02386; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 09:40:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812211740.JAA02386@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Warner Losh cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Information needed on SMI In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Dec 1998 10:26:52 MST." <199812211726.KAA02738@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 09:40:24 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message