Re: apm power_off on smp

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
15 Jul 2002 01:57:24 +0100


On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 00:34, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > > 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 ?

Only if your hardware supports true CPU unplugging and your BIOS
supports APM for it. That is wildly improbable at best

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