Re: [RT] [RFC] simple SMI detector

Clark Williams
2009-01-25T15:05:39Z

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On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:49:18 +0100
Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> >
> > My concern about the SMI disable module is that it can damage Joe
> > users hardware. I have at least two reports where the CPU got fried
> > and some others where people got confused because chips started
> > behaving weird and it took quite a time to figure out that they used
> > the SMI disabler. A big fat warning about this code is definitely
> > necessary.
> >
> > Thanks,
>
>
> I suppose the non joe user could flash their motherboard with
> linuxcore and therefore do not distrub by SMI :)
>

Except for the fact that linuxcore is unaware of the specific
requirements a particular motherboard has for thermal management.

Turning off SMI's unconditionally is a *bad* idea. Better to start
telling hardware vendors that we can't use their platform because of
unexplained latencies (which we presume to be SMI's).

Clark
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