On Tue, 2007-20-03 at 10:15 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > disabling that is a BAD idea. I'm no fan of SMM myself, but it's there, > and we have to live with it. Disabling it without knowing what it does > on your system is madness. >
Like Lee said, for "debugging", mainly trying to resolve unexplained long latencies. I've had a laptop that caused latency spikes with the cpu fan was turn on. I tried disabling SMI to diagnose the problem with no success. My current system has a BIOS feature to control fans speed according to temperature. I presume this must a SMI to work right? In this case it should be possible to find and disable the related SMI and replace the fan control with a user space software. Of course it's not wise to blindly disable SMIs as we don't precisely know what they do. - Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
