On 21/04/2015 17:04, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hmm. I think if we merge all the smm / smram / tseg patches in one go > this should work. Without patches reading the ESMRAMC register returns > zero. With the patches the three cache-disable bits are hardcoded to > '1'. This should work for detecting tseg support. > > You also have to test for smm support. The current protocol for this is > that seabios checks whenever smm is already initialized (see > *_apmc_smm_setup() in seabios/src/fw/smm.c) and if so it skips smm > initialization. Right now qemu sets the bit on reset when running on > kvm, so seabios doesn't try to use smm. On tcg the bit is clear after > reset and seabios actually uses smm mode.
BTW, I plan to add "-machine smm=yes/no/auto". Gerd, are you going to implement SMI_EN locking as well? Paolo
