> On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Neil Conway wrote:
>
> > But, APM is incompatible with SMP. What would be nice would be a way to
> > just tell the PSU to turn off without having full APM support, so that
> > SMP machines could be powered down automatically.
>
> Is there some special reason for this? I'm about to get my Tyan 1696DLUA
> next week and going to run it SMP. I can live without Software Power off
> -feature, but I must say, that I'm disappointed. ;(
Yes there is the hardware doen't support it.
>
> It would for example be nice to be able to power down machine, if the
> processor temperature rises to high. (Like in SUN workstations... )
>
> > Surely the I/O ports or whatever for APM can just be tweaked to make
> > this happen?
> >
> > Can't say it's a very vital feature though ;-) (and could be done by
> > user code anyway like maybe in halt?).
>
> Anyone willing to do little tweaking? ;)
>
hmmm
I've got a soldering iron if you want to start. ;)
-- Gerhard Mack irc-admin skyline.starchat.net gmack@imag.net InnerFIRE@starchat.netAs a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
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