> > 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. :-)
What do you think might be wrong? I would have thought that once the
APM BIOS power off code is called, then it should happen. It was my
understanding that the SMP issues were related to the kernel disabling
APM under SMP. Do you suspect the APM BIOS knows about SMP too?
Regards,
Richard....
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