What Falls Under the Heading of System Management?
The types of operations that typically fall under the heading of System Management are power management and management of the system's thermal environment (e.g., temperature monitoring in the platform's various thermal zones and fan control). It should be stressed, however, that system management is not necessarily limited to these specific areas.
The following are some example situations that would require action by the SM handler program:
A laptop chipset implements a timer that tracks how long it's been since the hard drive was last accessed. If this timer should elapse, the chipset generates an SMI (System Management Interrupt) to the processor to invoke the SM handler program. In the handler, ...
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