Re: ATX Power off & SMP-Kernel

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 24 Apr 1999 02:20:02 +0100 (BST)

> Linus's kernel (and Alan's version too) lacks fixing apm.c for SMP. We
> have reported it many many times and useful patches are appeared. But,
> unfortunately, Linus and Alan weren't going to apply them. Perhaps,
> they have no interest in it.

APM isnt specified for SMP. What it does varies between the right thing
and crunching your computer. ACPI is specified for SMP and people are now
starting to use it.

Im not keen personally to support APM on SMP when it just "happens to work
for some people". Maybe some kind of BIOS revision check for known good
bioses woukd be appropriate ?

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