Now that we've set Tseg to be open all the time, packet sending works reliably under both Linux and Pebbles, and the PCI bothering code still does what it's supposed to. The next step is to start sending out screen dumps...
This brought up an interesting race condition. Suppose we have some device that we set up to repeatedly attempt to DMA our code into SMM. Most of the time, this will fail. However, at some point, an SMI will occur (and if not, we can enable some more traps); if the DMA happens to occur while the northbridge is in SMM, then shazam...
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