Have you ever tried to make a photo-copy of an entire book? I haven't. Because I know that it sucks before I start. Let's see, spend all day making copies of a book, page-by-page. At $0.10 a page. Then accidently mix up some of the pages. Or I can go to the book store and pay $25. Hmmm. Option #2 please.
Now with an electronic eBook, I could just click onto some FTP site and download in 15 seconds. Not charge my credit card $25. Good for me. Bad for the publisher, which is bad for me later.
When an SMI is triggered the system jumps to a special memory space called SMM. SMM space can only be accessed/modified when in SMI. The BIOS implements the handler and the handler cannot be taken over by the OS. Lots of events can cause an SMI. That is a possible mechanism.
Check out the feature in chapter 5 of the ICH5 datasheet http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/da tashts/2525 16.htm
Before everyone goes crazy bashing Intel, every x86 chipset/system supports SMI since 386.
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Have you ever tried to make a photo-copy of an entire book? I haven't. Because I know that it sucks before I start. Let's see, spend all day making copies of a book, page-by-page. At $0.10 a page. Then accidently mix up some of the pages. Or I can go to the book store and pay $25. Hmmm. Option #2 please. Now with an electronic eBook, I could just click onto some FTP site and download in 15 seconds. Not charge my credit card $25. Good for me. Bad for the publisher, which is bad for me later.
Man, I can see it now. I'm driving down the road and get active billboard spam. "Brad, are women scared of your freakishly large male member?"
SMI = System Management Interrupt.
a tashts/2525 16.htm
When an SMI is triggered the system jumps to a special memory space called SMM. SMM space can only be accessed/modified when in SMI. The BIOS implements the handler and the handler cannot be taken over by the OS. Lots of events can cause an SMI. That is a possible mechanism.
Check out the feature in chapter 5 of the ICH5 datasheet
http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/d
Before everyone goes crazy bashing Intel, every x86 chipset/system supports SMI since 386.
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Oh wait. You didn't.