Re: [PATCH 14/21] i386 Apm is on cpu zero only

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx> 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?

APM BIOS should only ever run on the BSP, and I believe in Linux the BSP 
is always 0.  Since APM is obsolete, there is no future to consider.

	-hpa
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