The Previous Chapter
This chapter described the hardware and software characteristics of the Pentium® M processor as well as an overview of the Centrino chipset. It included:
The Pentium® M and Centrino.
Characteristics Overview.
The FSB Characteristics.
Enhanced Power Management Characteristics.
Three Different Packaging Models.
Improved Thermal Monitor Mode.
Enhanced Branch Prediction.
μop Fusion.
Advanced Stack Management.
Hardware-Based Data Prefetcher.
The L2 Cache.
The Data Cache and Hyper-Threading.
The Next Pentium® M.
This Chapter
This chapter provides a detailed description of the CPUID instruction. It includes:
Prior to the Advent of the CPUID Instruction.
Determining if the CPUID instruction Is Supported.
Determining Basic Request Types Supported.
Determining Extended Request Types Supported.
The Basic Request Types.
Request Type 1.
Request Type 2.
Request Type 3.
Request Type 4.
Request Type 5.
The Extended Request Types.
Enhanced Processor Signature.
The Next Chapter
This chapter provides a detailed description of System Management Mode (SMM). It includes:
What Falls Under the Heading of System Management?
The Genesis of SMM.
SMM Has Its Own Private Memory Space.
The Basic Elements of SMM.
How the Processor Knows the SM Memory Start Address.
The Organization of SM RAM.
Entering SMM.
Exiting SMM.
The Auto Halt Restart Feature.
The IO Instruction Restart Feature.
Caching from SM Memory.
Setting Up the SMI Handler in SM Memory.
Relocating the SM RAM Base Address.
SMM in an MP System.
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