From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
Cc: Pozsar Balazs <pozsy@uhulinux.hu>,
Kelledin <kelledin+LKML@skarpsey.dyndns.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: apm power_off on smp
Date: 15 Jul 2002 02:23:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1026696187.13886.102.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1026691525.2077.38.camel@bip>
On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 01:05, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Err .. my mobo's BIOS is SMP specific and implements APM, so I guess
> there is a case where it's useful. It must be something like when
Don't bet on that. I've seen quad Xeon servers with single CPU only APM
> running Win95, which is UP only. Isn't Linux able to return to a UP-like
> state (à la Win95) just before entering poweroff ?
We can flush the caches and pray, but what the BIOS does is an
interesting question. On the theory thats its your data you have to
select the chances you wish to take. (Indeed on -ac you can enable APM
on SMP in full)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-15 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-14 22:13 Pozsar Balazs
2002-07-14 22:30 ` Kelledin
2002-07-14 22:55 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-07-14 23:03 ` Pozsar Balazs
2002-07-15 0:39 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-14 23:34 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-07-15 0:57 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-15 0:05 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-07-15 1:23 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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