On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 12:40:47PM +0100, limp wrote: > 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? It's a turing-complete language with full access to the hardware, so there's no reason why you can't entirely eliminate SMIs. The usual reason not to would be to retain commonality of code for non-ACPI environments like the setup screen. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
