1. A method comprising: installing, at an information handling system, a non-system management mode (non-SMM) driver associated with a hardware device; and in response to determining an SMM driver associated with the hardware device is available at the information handling system: redirecting an input/output (IO) request from the non-SMM driver to the SMM driver; and conducting an IO transaction represented by the IO request directly with the hardware device via the SMM driver.