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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kvm smm mode support?
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 11:40:16 +0200
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Il 25/04/2014 09:39, Gerd Hoffmann ha scritto:
> Anyone has plans to add smm support to kvm?

No plans, but it should be a Simple Matter Of Programming...

A good start would be to write unit tests for SMM that work with QEMU. 
Too bad we're late, it could have been a nice summer of code project.

Paolo

> We have two potential use cases meanwhile:
>
>  (1) OVMF could use it to implement the LockBox (storage area the
>      OS can't tamper with, needed to make secure boot actually secure).
>
>  (2) SeaBIOS considers using a SMM trampoline to switch into 32bit mode
>      for device drivers.  See
>         http://www.seabios.org/pipermail/seabios/2014-April/007957.html