Nov. 22, 2010
5:50 p.m.
On 11/22/2010 07:45 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
Correct. Note, it's likely that we have almost everything covered already, so it's mostly testing (beyond implementing SMM entry/exit).
However, we have a large deployed base with no SMM support, so we need a fallback if SMM is not available. It's also tricky to probe for working SMM, I don't think there's a cpuid bit for that.
All real CPUs 586+ support SMM, so a CPUID bit wouldn't be applicable. That being said, SMM has to be activated from the chipset, so some kind of ID bit could be put in there. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.