Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Aug 2002 14:55:39 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] tls-2.5.31-C3 |
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On 12 Aug 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > ugh, we do Linux interrupts while in the APM BIOS? > > We have to. Most APM bios expects interrupts to be happening. In > pre-emptive mode we may well even be switching to/from APM BIOS code in > 2.5 at the moment. I've not looked into that.
i think that since we hold the APM spinlock (do we always, when calling into the APM BIOS?), we should not preempt any APM BIOS code.
Ingo
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