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My kid hates Linux (ZDNet)My kid hates Linux (ZDNet)Posted Apr 15, 2008 15:08 UTC (Tue) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)In reply to: My kid hates Linux (ZDNet) by nix Parent article: My kid hates Linux (ZDNet)
ACPI is actually less of a problem in this respect because it's executed by the OS. There's a ACPI virtual machine language. I think you are talking about SMM which is set up by the BIOS and does indeed run whatever and whenever it feels like. LinuxBIOS/CoreBoot is the way to avoid that. SMM is definitely something to avoid if you need hard, fast real-time.
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My kid hates Linux (ZDNet) Posted Apr 15, 2008 16:43 UTC (Tue) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link] Thanks for the pointer about SMM - at least one Microsoftie agrees with you that "SMM is evil": http://blogs.msdn.com/carmencr/archive/2005/09/01/459194.... Summary of SMM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Mode - seems this is now mandated by Microsoft through DMI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_Management_Interface - and DMI is supported by some Linux distros apparently. Any ideas on how to avoid SMM? Can it be disabled in some BIOSes for example?
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