On 05/19/2011 11:30 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>
>>  That's not that simple. We need to tell apart:
>>   - if a cpu issued the request, and which one =>  forward to APIC
>  And cpu mode may affect where access is forwarded to. If cpu is in SMM
>  mode access to frame buffer may be forwarded to a memory (depends on
>  chipset configuration).

So we have a second use case for CPU-local I/O regions?

I wonder if only a single CPU can enter SMM or if all have to. Right now
only the first CPU can switch to that mode, and that affects the
behaviour of the chipset /wrt SMRAM mapping. Is that another hack?

It's a hack. SMM is a per-cpu setting. Effectively it's another address pin - it changes the meaning of (potentially) all addresses.

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