[coreboot] [RFC] SMM handling and resident coreboot

Marc Jones Marc.Jones at amd.com
Tue Jul 29 00:56:02 CEST 2008


Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:

>> PCI read/write functions are not so duplication shouldn't be too bad.
> 
> PCI config read/write is probably the one thing we never want to do in
> SMM because the OS could be in the middle of an CF8/CFC cycle.

SMM will have to read config space. No way around it. cf8 just needs to 
be saved and restored.

Marc



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