I disassemble and read a lot of vintage bioses for fun. Recently I looked at something more ~recent, an Atom N270 945GSE Mini-ITX industrial board from 2010. Phoenix bios:

    seg000:FD56 Unreal_FFD56    proc near               ; CODE XREF: CPU_MicrocodeUpdate+A↑j
    seg000:FD56                                         ; VGA_BIOS_Shadow+20↑p ...
    seg000:FD56                 lgdt    fword ptr cs:[bx]
    seg000:FD5A                 mov     eax, cr0
    seg000:FD5D                 or      al, 1
    seg000:FD5F                 mov     cr0, eax
    seg000:FD62                 jmp     short $+2
    seg000:FD64 ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    seg000:FD64
    seg000:FD64 loc_FFD64:                              ; CODE XREF: Unreal_FFD56+C↑j
    seg000:FD64                 mov     ax, 8
    seg000:FD67                 mov     ds, ax
    seg000:FD69                 assume ds:nothing
    seg000:FD69                 mov     es, ax
    seg000:FD6B                 assume es:nothing
    seg000:FD6B                 mov     eax, cr0
    seg000:FD6E                 and     al, 0FEh
    seg000:FD70                 mov     cr0, eax
    seg000:FD73                 jmp     short $+2
    seg000:FD75 ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    seg000:FD75
    seg000:FD75 loc_FFD75:                              ; CODE XREF: Unreal_FFD56+1D↑j
    seg000:FD75                 xor     ax, ax
    seg000:FD77                 mov     ds, ax
    seg000:FD79                 assume ds:nothing
    seg000:FD79                 mov     es, ax
    seg000:FD7B                 assume es:nothing
    seg000:FD7B                 retn
    seg000:FD7B Unreal_FFD56    endp

two short jumps, no far jumps in sight. Apparently works just fine on Pentium 4, Core 2s and Atoms.