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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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> Some BIOSes do not lock SMM, and you *could* turn it off at the chipset
> level.

Doing so would be wasteful though. Both AMD and Intel CPUs need SMM code
for the deeper C* sleep states.

-Andi