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Date:      Wed, 1 Sep 1999 23:43:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: followup to apm problems. 
Message-ID:  <199909020343.XAA08465@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199909012247.QAA20600@harmony.village.org>
References:  <199909011345.JAA05781@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199908312120.PAA13660@harmony.village.org> <199908312216.PAA00882@dingo.cdrom.com> <199909012247.QAA20600@harmony.village.org>

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<<On Wed, 01 Sep 1999 16:47:36 -0600, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> said:

[I wrote:]
> : 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?

No, it means if you disable [interrupts] at the PIC level it will have
no effect on whether or not the system resumes immediately, since they
don't go through the PIC to get to the BIOS.

-GAWollman

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