Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> writes:
>
> I've experienced the same problem. I passed "apm=smp-power-off" and
> even hacked the kernel to printk when the relevant bit of code
> executes, just to be sure it was being reached (which it was). Still
> no luck.
>
> A couple of months ago I booted a UP kernel and the power off worked.
Blast! More debugging required. It is very hard to get right, as
the SMP machine I have access to has no APM BIOS and the APM capable
machines are not SMP. :-)
I will attempt to create a patch this week from a report I had
a while back.
Cheers,
Stephen
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