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From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kvm smm mode support?
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 15:40:14 +0200
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On 04/26/14 11:40, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 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.

Well I don't know what behavior to expect from SMM... :)

Plus, Kevin recently posted some remarks about the SMM implementation in
qemu-tcg -- apparently it's not faithful enough to physical hardware:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bios.coreboot.seabios/7959
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/268909

(But I can see that you've been already discussing the second thread; I
guess I should read up on it first...)

Thanks
Laszlo