Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Zachary Amsden <[email protected]> wrote:
APM BIOS code has a protective wrapper that runs it only on CPU zero.
Thus, no need to set APM BIOS segments in the GDT for other CPUs.
hm, do we want (need) to have that CPU#0 assumption forever?
APM BIOS should only ever run on the BSP, and I believe in Linux the BSP
is always 0. Since APM is obsolete, there is no future to consider.
-hpa
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