Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RT] [RFC] simple SMI detector | From | Jon Masters <> | Date | Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:38:37 -0500 |
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On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 13:12 +1100, Sven-Thorsten Dietrich wrote:
> I envision documentation of these specs, in a similar fashion to the > manner in which CPU clock-cycles are documented for specific instruction > executions - for those systems eligible (certified?) for low-latency > operation.
I'd love to see a generic API that OS's could use to interface with BIOS-level SMI implementations. Something provided in ACPI data. For all I know, there already is something generic, but I've not heard of it? It'd be really nice to have generic functions like:
disable_random_vendor_extensions_crap() disable_all_non_essential_smis()
or whatever else.
> Providing benchmarking tools is definitely an excellent step in that > direction (imo) - thanks.
Yeah. The more of this stuff, the better I think. So if someone wants to help me polish what I posted then cool - it's in our "MRG" internal tree already in the current form since we're only using it for debugging now.
Jon.
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