SCI/SMI

SCI/SMI  

 

 

System Control Interrupt (SCI)

  A system interrupt used by hardware to notify the OS of ACPI events. The SCI is an active, low, shareable, level interrupt.

  SCI 是一个用于HW将ACPI event notity 给OS的系统中断。

System Management Interrupt (SMI)

  An OS-transparent interrupt generated by interrupt events on legacy systems. By contrast, on ACPI systems, interrupt events generate an OS-visible interrupt that is shareable (edge-style interrupts will not work). Hardware platforms that want to support both legacy operating systems and ACPI systems must support a way of remapping the interrupt events between SMIs and SCIs when switching between ACPI and legacy models.

 

(from ACPI SPEC 5.0 page 23)

 

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