Tim Crawford wrote: > If I understand the question correctly Juergen want to tell the > chipset to issue a IRQ not a SMI. There is no SMM code in LB. > > Tim > > > >>>>Ronald G Minnich <[email protected]> 08/07/06 2:48 PM >>> > > 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?
apologies, I am really in 'slow mode' today. we may need to write a stupid trampoline to get from smi to linux. ron -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
