Re: Question: APM on SMP?

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Terry 'Mongoose' Hendrix wrote:
>
> Is there a way to do soft powerdown ( with APM ) on an SMP machine? I'm
> new to linux on SMP, but I noticed if you <ctrl><alt><del> it will switch
> to cpu0 ( ? ) and reset. Is there a way to make a sys req for
> switching to cpu0 and load a small module to soft power down, or does SMP
> with the current APM code base just not to be done?
>
> I've never done any bios coding, so flame away.
>
Put 'apm=smp-power-off' on your command line (This is broken in the dev kernels). The
machine will switch itself off when you halt.

Tony

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