Re: apm power_off on smp
Xavier Bestel (xavier.bestel@free.fr)
15 Jul 2002 01:34:02 +0200
Le lun 15/07/2002 à 02:39, Alan Cox a écrit :
> On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 00:03, Pozsar Balazs wrote:
> >
> > Yes, all I want is poweroff.
> > I understand that apm is not smp safe, and pretty much all of it is
> > disabled in smp mode.
> >
> > What i do not understand is why the poweroff functionality is disabled by
> > default.
>
> Because it too is unsafe on some machines
Would it be possible to use the CPU-hotplug patch to unplug all CPUs
except the one entering apm power-off ?
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