[LinuxBIOS] SMM in LinuxBIOS

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Fri Jan 12 04:18:04 CET 2007


Hi Arvind,

Arvind Seshadri wrote:
> Having an IOMMU is not necessary since our goal is only to prevent DMA
> write to a region of memory. We have come up with techniques that can
> prevent DMA writes on legacy systems without an IOMMU. Also, Pioneer is

That sounds interesting. Are you using the GART present in most current
systems?

> not LinuxBIOS-specific. It can be incorporated into any SMM code.

Thanks for clarifying that.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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