Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [BUG] 2.6.21-rc1,2,3 regressions on my system that I found so far | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:15:41 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 01:36 -0400, Eric St-Laurent wrote: > On Tue, 2007-20-03 at 01:04 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > > I think CONFIG_TRY_TO_DISABLE_SMI would be excellent for debugging, > > not to mention people trying to spec out hardware for RT > > applications... > > There is a SMI disabling module in RTAI, check the smi-module.c in this: > > https://www.rtai.org/RTAI/rtai-3.5.tar.bz2 > > More infos: > > http://www.captain.at/rtai-smi-high-latency.php > http://www.captain.at/xenomai-smi-high-latency.php > > It might make sense to merge this code, at least in the -rt tree.
it NEVER makes sense to disable SMM.
SMM is there to ensure that your hardware doesn't get physically damaged.
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.
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