"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> writes:Not in general no. Frequently you can get at the registers that will enable/disable an SMI but that is chipset specific. Think of SMM mode is a lightweight hypervisor that we can't get rid of, if you want to understand the worst case. In theory SMM mode is completely unnecessary as soon as we enable ACPI. In practice ACPI appears to frequently trap into SMM mode. Eric --
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