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 Since APM is obsolete, there is no future to consider.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