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Date:      Wed, 01 Sep 1999 21:36:18 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org>, mmuir@es.co.nz, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: followup to apm problems. 
Message-ID:  <37419.936214578@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Sep 1999 12:26:34 PDT." <199909011926.MAA00398@dingo.cdrom.com> 

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In message <199909011926.MAA00398@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes:
>> In message <199909011345.JAA05781@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman writes:
>> ><<On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:16:48 -0700, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> said:
>> >
>> >> Actually, that's almost entirely system-dependant.  The BIOS may well 
>> >> poll the keyboard controller/USB controller, for example.
>> >
>> >And designs based on the Intel PIIX4 will generate SMI# interrupts for
>> >whichever activities are programmed in the BIOS, completely bypassing
>> >the traditional interrupt mechanism.
>> 
>> And these interrupts will take as much as 50usec to service...
>
>Since in the context that we're discussing the system is asleep, I can't
>actually see how this is in any way relevant...

Because SMI interrupts happen all the time, not just when it is asleep :-(

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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