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From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: thunder7@xs4all.nl
Cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
	Linux-Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Any hope of fixing shutdown power off for SMP?
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:51:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021020235107.GA14334@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021020053702.GA3579@middle.of.nowhere>; from thunder7@xs4all.nl on Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 07:37:02 +0200


On 2002.10.20 Jurriaan wrote:
>From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
>Date: Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 03:40:22PM -0400
>> I've beaten this dead horse before, but it still irks me that Linux can't
>> power down an SMP system. People claim that it can't be done safely, but
>> maybe somone can reverse engineer NT if we aren't up to the job.
>> 
>I'm trying to find out the same. So far:
>

There are patches both in the -ac and -aa tree to make smp kernels shut
down properly, even to support full APM if you have enough luck. shutdown
works fine on my smp box...

-- 
J.A. Magallon <jamagallon@able.es>      \                 Software is like sex:
werewolf.able.es                         \           It's better when it's free
Mandrake Linux release 9.1 (Cooker) for i586
Linux 2.4.20-pre11-jam1 (gcc 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-2mdk))

  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-20 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-19 19:40 Any hope of fixing shutdown power off for SMP? Bill Davidsen
2002-10-20  5:37 ` Jurriaan
2002-10-20 23:51   ` J.A. Magallon [this message]
2002-10-21  0:52     ` Bill Davidsen
2002-10-21  1:03       ` J.A. Magallon
2002-10-21  2:40         ` Bill Davidsen
2002-10-21  2:45   ` Bill Davidsen
2002-10-21  1:58     ` Rob Landley
2002-10-21 11:32       ` Alan Cox
2002-10-21 20:41       ` Bill Davidsen
2002-10-21 19:15         ` Rob Landley

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