Re: apm broken - again (2.1.122) + FIX

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 20 Sep 1998 15:38:49 +0100

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On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 04:11:28PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Correct. APM might happen to apparently work, it might even be safe for
> a few machines, it might also save and restore with the L2 cache of a CPU
> corrupted (which appears to occur on some boxes).

Those gambles apply even for uniprocessors.
Try it. If it seems to work, use it.
Can you really trust a BIOS these days?

-- Jamie

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