Re: Any hope of fixing shutdown power off for SMP?

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On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 02:58, Rob Landley wrote:
> None of my systems will power down on UP if I enable the "local apic support
> on uniprocessors" option.

Its a very common BIOS problem. Some work was done on switching back
from APIC in this situation but its not really proved sufficient - I
still dont understand why. With 2.5 we have ACPI thats now getting
actually usable and that should let the power off stuff beging to do the
right thing

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