On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 13:12 +1100, Sven-Thorsten Dietrich wrote: > I envision documentation of these specs, in a similar fashion to the > manner in which CPU clock-cycles are documented for specific instruction > executions - for those systems eligible (certified?) for low-latency > operation. I'd love to see a generic API that OS's could use to interface with BIOS-level SMI implementations. Something provided in ACPI data. For all I know, there already is something generic, but I've not heard of it? It'd be really nice to have generic functions like: disable_random_vendor_extensions_crap() disable_all_non_essential_smis() or whatever else. > Providing benchmarking tools is definitely an excellent step in that > direction (imo) - thanks. Yeah. The more of this stuff, the better I think. So if someone wants to help me polish what I posted then cool - it's in our "MRG" internal tree already in the current form since we're only using it for debugging now. Jon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
