Re: [PATCH] APM patch updated for 2.1.124

Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 8 Oct 1998 10:35:15 -0400 (EDT)

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On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> APM will never be SMP safe, the problem is at the BIOS level not Linux

I thought Linux was supposed to throw away the BIOS and use its own
routines? Is there a clear case for an implementation that ignores the
BIOS completely and uses its own APM routines, or is it too hard or what?

Cheers,
Alex.

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