Re: [coreboot] Design discussions on gerrit

[Patrick Georgi]

2017-04-12 4:17 GMT+02:00 [e-mail] :
> I was under the impression that coreboots native init boards disabled SMM
> post-init and that this issue only applies to intel's FSP blobbed stuff, am
> I incorrect?

SMM is used on many boards, FSP or not, for tasks such as preparing
for shutdown (eg on i945 it needs to disable busmaster on all devices
for shutdown to work) or to handle certain EC tasks (eg. brightness
settings, potentially only if ACPI isn't enabled).

Patrick