Dear all, I am doing some research regarding ACPI and SMM PM interfaces for the x86 architecture. What I've found so far is that ACPI is the new trend for x86 PM and tends to eliminate the use of SMM/SMI. However, I am not quite sure if SMM/SMI mechanism can be completely ignored/not used in current systems. AFAIK, some ACPI AML BIOS code can trigger an SMI for handling specific events. Can anyone advise me if it's possible to write ACPI AML BIOS code that does whatever it was intended to be executed in SMM? In general, is there any *strong* argument saying that (at least) current systems cannot completely eliminate the use of SMIs? Thank you all in advance, Best wishes. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
