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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 14:55:39 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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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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