Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: APM disabled on SMP systems? | Date | 17 Apr 1998 22:09:05 GMT |
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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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