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

From: ferret@phonewave.net
Date: Sun May 07 2000 - 11:05:36 EST


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On 7 May 2000, Jarno Paananen wrote:

> 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.

I do this and it does not seem to work. Maybe I need to use real-mode APM?

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Beiad Ian Q. Dalton

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