[ltp] apm and preemptive kernel patch

Thomas Hood linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
05 Aug 2002 16:27:02 +0200


On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 09:19, Fabrice Planchon wrote:
> well, interestingly enough, it looks like I screwed up when compiling
> my kernel with preempt enabled, and left SMP enabled, which resulted
> in APM not working.

Yes, enabling SMP disables the apm driver.

> Since then, I have recompiled with SMP off and
> preempt on, and things seem to work.

Interesting.  Thanks for the info.

--
Thomas


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