Juergen Beisert wrote: > Hi all, > > On Monday 07 August 2006 11:19, myself wrote: > >>I try to write a native sound driver for the Geode GX1/5530a Companion >>chip. Problem here: The sound chip only generates SMI. Does anyone knows a >>trick or a chipset switch that let me forward this SMI to a regular IRQ? >>Its too ugly to use a polling loop.... ;-) > > > Sorry. I think I must explain: I'm using linuxbios on this Geode system, so > there is no SMM emulation of the sound hardware. Thats why I'm searching for > a solution to forward the SMI to a regular IRQ. Has someone experience in > programming this SMM code? Maybe a short routine that only triggers a regular > interrupt when an SMI occures would help.
Is there some reason to continue to use SMI? why not just drive the hardware directly w/o smi? ron -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
