On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:27 AM, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I was thinking about the plugging and services and so on. I have >> always enjoyed coreboot being SMM free, and I consider that a huge >> marketing advantage even with the SMM handler being optional. >> >> Also, if it is easy to add SMM code to coreboot I'm afraid it will >> become a trend and to me, it is not the right fix for anything. > > I'm not really talking SMM. I'm talking about a hypervisor to provide > a superset of what SMM and ACPI and all the others provide. This is a > research activity and I'll see where it goes. It may go nowhere. > > But it will be utterly GPL, and it will either do a far better job, > and give us an improved world, or we don't do it. > > >> My beef with SMM besides virtualizing hardware is the segregation and >> to some degree duplication of logic between OS and $othercode. Just >> like we enjoy Linux as bootloader because drivers are only in one >> place, I want to enjoy the operating system doing everything SMM is >> used for. You know, operations. Yes, it is revolutionary, at least >> for PCs. > > It is, sadly, becoming revolutionary for Linux :-( Linux on Opteron > can't really work right without ACPI. And YingHai's last try at fixing > that was rejected by Andi Kleen.
Now those patches is in v2.6.26. thanks Ingo also there is one update_mptable option, that could be used to convert acpi routing to mptable... -- in 2.6.27-rc1. please keep in mind, SMI is evil. YH -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
