> If you are on an Intel chipset and you want to implement ACPI based on > the ACPI standard and Linux implementation, you will have to use an SMI > handler, there is no way whatsoever around this. Well, except writing > native drivers for highly mainboard and wiring specific stuff in Linux, > in Plan9, in *BSD, in Windows XP, in Windows Vista, in [fill your > favourite OS or payload]. > Another point on the Intel part, SMM and SMI handlers are also used with Intels vBIOS (VGA Bios) to handle built in drivers for LVDS screens and tv-out chips (they call these modules VBTs and FlexAIMs). I have been doing alot of research in this lately, and it would be great to impliment this into coreboot. That's my 2 cents worth. -- Thanks, Joseph Smith Set-Top-Linux www.settoplinux.org
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