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pkaye on Nov 9, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Many Computers Are in Your Computer?

I thought SMM was just a special mode of the main cpu itself?

monocasa on Nov 9, 2018 [–]

Yeah, SMM is just Ring -2 on the main cores.

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