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SubjectRe: APM disabled on SMP systems?
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Followup to:  <m0yQCdH-000aNiC@the-village.bc.nu>
By author: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> The APM bios spec doesnt define SMP behaviour so its sort of touch and go
> if it works with your BIOS. Otherwise someone needs to write a driver for
> the new power spec
>

Well, you *could* envision a hack where you lock *all* the CPUs before
entering the APM BIOS. No, I'm not recommending it...

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