* Yu-Cheng Liu peter90609@gmail.com [150721 11:04]:
Hello,
I purpose to trigger SMI event and do something in SMM mode .
I trace the coreboot source code and found that, during the coreboot environment setup, the file locate at southbridge/intel/i82801ix/smi.c will be excute. Is it enough for SMI/SMM operation?
That is just the code that installs the SMM handler (well, part of it)
I didn’t see the code under cpu/smm be locate in the ramstage.debug symbol.
The SMM handler is a separate module.
What is the different purpose between southbridge/intel/i82801ix/smi.c and /cpu /x86/smm?
The code in southbridge/intel/i82801ix/smi.c is the chipset specific SMI initialization. southbridge/intel/i82801ix/smihandler.c is the chipset specific SMI handler.
The code under cpu/x86/smm is generic for the x86 architecture.
How do I trigger the SMI event?
Typically hardware triggers an SMI, e.g. on a GPE event, timeout, or such. See southbridge/intel/i82801ix/smihandler.c for a more comprehensive list of southbridge SMI sources.
You can also use the APMC SMI command mechanism to manually trigger SMIs, see southbridge_smi_apmc(void) for details.
Stefan