Re: [coreboot] SMM handling and resident coreboot

[Joseph Smith]

> If you are on an Intel chipset and you want to implement ACPI based on
> the ACPI standard and Linux implementation, you will have to use an SMI
> handler, there is no way whatsoever around this. Well, except writing
> native drivers for highly mainboard and wiring specific stuff in Linux,
> in Plan9, in *BSD, in Windows XP, in Windows Vista, in [fill your
> favourite OS or payload].

Another point on the Intel part, SMM and SMI handlers are also used with
Intels vBIOS (VGA Bios) to handle built in drivers for LVDS screens and
tv-out chips (they call these modules VBTs and FlexAIMs). I have been doing
alot of research in this lately, and it would be great to impliment this
into coreboot. That's my 2 cents worth.