Re: why use ACPI (Re: 2.6.10-rc2 doesn't boot (if no floppy device))

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 08:07:36PM -0500, Len Brown wrote:

 > Laptops have had soft poweroff with APM for a while, but desktops and
 > servers never adopted APM, so soft-power-off is generally a new feature
 > with ACPI for them.

Nonsense.

My 4-way compaq server disagrees with you. No ACPI on that
at all, and it has fully working APM, even in SMP.  Likewise,
I don't think I've ever seen a desktop without APM.
(modulo broken biosen).

IIRC, APM supported this since the arrival of ATX power supplies,
which was a _long_ time ago. 1996/1997 ?

		Dave

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/