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Intel386™ EX EMBEDDED MICROPROCESSOR USER’S MANUAL
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7.3.4.2 SMRAM State Dump Area
The SMM State Save sequence asserts SMIACT#. This mechanism indicates to internal modules
that the CPU has entered and is currently executing SMM. The resume (RSM) instruction is only
valid when in SMM. SMRAM space is an area located in the memory address range 38000H–
3FFFFH. The SMRAM area cannot be relocated internally. SMRAM space is intended for access
by the CPU only, and should be accessible only when SMM is enabled. This area is used by the
SMM State Save sequence to save the CPU state in a stack-like fashion from the top of the
SMRAM area downward.
The CPU state dump area always starts at 3FFFFH and ends at 3FE00H. The following is a map
of the CPU state dump in the SMRAM.
Hex Address Name Description
03FFFC CR0 Control flags that affect the processor state
03FFF8 CR3 Page directory base register
03FFF4 EFLGS General condition and control flags
03FFF0 EIP Instruction pointer
03FFEC EDI Destination index
03FFE8 ESI Source index
03FFE4 EBP Base pointer
03FFE0 ESP Stack pointer
03FFDC EBX General register
03FFC8 EDX General register
03FFD4 ECX General register
03FFD0 EAX General register
03FFCC DR6 Debug register; contains status at exception
03FFC8 DR7 Debug register; controls breakpoints
03FFC4 TR Task register; used to access current task descriptor
03FFC0 LDTR Local descriptor table pointer
03FFBC GS General-purpose segment register
03FFB8 FS General-purpose segment register
03FFB4 DS Data segment register
03FFB0 SS Stack segment register
03FFAC CS Code segment register
03FFA8 ES General-purpose segment register
03FFA7–03FF04 — Reserved
03FF02 — Halt restart slot
03FF00 — I/O trap restart slot
03FEFC — SMM revision identifier (10000H)
03FEFB–03FE00 — Reserved