Re: SMP powering off doesn't seem to work.

From: Jarno Paananen (jpaana@s2.org)
Date: Sun May 07 2000 - 09:29:43 EST


Igmar Palsenberg <maillist@chello.nl> writes:

| > * 1.9: Fix small typo. <laslo@ilo.opole.pl>
| > * Try to cope with BIOS's that need to have all display
| > * devices blanked and not just the first one.
| > * Ross Paterson <ross@soi.city.ac.uk>
| > * Fix segment limit setting it has always been wrong as
| > * the segments needed to have byte granularity.
| > * Mark a few things __init.
| > * Add hack to allow power off of SMP systems by popular request.
| > * Use CONFIG_SMP instead of __SMP__
| > * Ignore BOUNCES for three seconds.
| > * Stephen Rothwell
| >
| > Foo? Anything to tweak in BIOS or kernel code?
|
| No idea.. Never looked at it. My experience is that it never worked on
| most SMP machines I know off.
|
| I don't own on myself, so I can't test / debug
|
| Notice that it is also called a hack.. :-))

Add line:

append="apm=power-off"

to your lilo.conf (or similar if you use another boot loader). This
enables the hack, which seems to work fine for me at least.

// Jarno

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