Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 15:45:00 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, 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: <199909012245.PAA01429@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Sep 1999 16:47:36 MDT." <199909012247.QAA20600@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <199909011345.JAA05781@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Garrett > Wollman writes: > : 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. > > So does that mean if we do disable them at the PIC level we'll be OK? It's reasonable to assume this, yes. However it's also worth bearing in mind that since the BIOS isn't using these interrupts to _detect_ activity, turning them off is pretty pointless. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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