[LinuxBIOS] protected mode switch

Li-Ta Lo ollie at lanl.gov
Tue Oct 23 18:52:47 CEST 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 08:21 -0700, Baski wrote:
> A dumb question.
> If LB is already running in protected mode, why is the switch
> happening again in _secondary_start (secondary.s) ?
> 

That's for secondary processor. Mode switch can only take
effect on the local processor, each processor has to switch
by itself.

Ollie






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