From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262993AbTDFPMz (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 11:12:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262998AbTDFPMz (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 11:12:55 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:20110 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262993AbTDFPMy (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 11:12:54 -0400 Subject: Re: poweroff problem From: Alan Cox To: "Udo A. Steinberg" Cc: Stephen Rothwell , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030406174655.592b7f60.us15@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> References: <20030405060804.31946.qmail@webmail5.rediffmail.com> <20030406233319.042878d3.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20030406155814.68c5c908.us15@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> <20030407002703.16993dc4.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20030406174655.592b7f60.us15@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1049639095.963.0.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 06 Apr 2003 15:24:55 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sul, 2003-04-06 at 16:46, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 00:27:03 +1000 Stephen Rothwell (SR) wrote: > > SR> I was asuming the original report was from a kernel using APM not ACPI. > SR> Did 2.4.2 have ACPI? > > Err no, so he must have been using APM. > > 2.4.2+APM has the problem, 2.4.21-pre+ACPI has the problem. Do APM and > ACPI both share the same code to power off a machine? If so that seems to > be the culprit. We rely on the bios for the power off sequences. Many BIOS vendors do set it up to share the bios code it seems