I can't speak for Red Hat on that but personal experience is that the
average CD buying Linux user a) doesnt know how to compile a kernel
and b) has no desire to do such a bizarre geek thing.
Thats a good sign how far Linux is getting.
> That was the whole reason they had you do the modular sound hacking.
Yep
> > SMP motherboards (eg what happens if we halt the CPU
> > that gets SMI interrupts and try and power down on the other).
>
> Use the boot CPU. In any case, doesn't the power down signal just
> go to the power supply? The system will crash anyway as soon as the
> power supply turns off; that is the intent.
Is the SMI line even connected in APIC mode, let alone where. Its fighting
a dangerous game for little win
> > More productive would be for you to download the ACPI spec
> > and get programming.
> That was reported as buggy beyond all hope.
Implementations right now are iffy. Windows 98 uses it, implementations are
improving at great speed. Until 98 came out ACPI was an irrelevance. Original
APM was dire too
Alan
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