Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030196AbVKHHdD (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 02:33:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030200AbVKHHdD (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 02:33:03 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:35010 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030196AbVKHHdA (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 02:33:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 08:33:15 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Zachary Amsden Cc: Andrew Morton , Chris Wright , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Virtualization Mailing List , "H. Peter Anvin" , Zwane Mwaikambo , Martin Bligh , Pratap Subrahmanyam , Christopher Li , "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/21] i386 Apm is on cpu zero only Message-ID: <20051108073315.GE28201@elte.hu> References: <200511080433.jA84Xwm7009921@zach-dev.vmware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200511080433.jA84Xwm7009921@zach-dev.vmware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamScore: 0.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=0.0 required=5.9 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled SpamAssassin version=3.0.4 0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 499 Lines: 14 * Zachary Amsden 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? Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/