From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 22:06:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 22:06:34 -0500 Received: from ferret.phonewave.net ([208.138.51.183]:40463 "EHLO tarot.mentasm.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 22:06:27 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:06:10 -0800 To: "Michael D. Crawford" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How to Power off with ACPI/APM? Message-ID: <20010105190610.B14712@ferret.phonewave.net> In-Reply-To: <3A560FDA.ABB3EF08@goingware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A560FDA.ABB3EF08@goingware.com>; from crawford@goingware.com on Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 06:18:02PM +0000 From: idalton@ferret.phonewave.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 06:18:02PM +0000, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > Silly question, but have you realized that you don't have to enable > > SMP in kernel to do multithreading ? > > Lest anyone think me completely clueless, yes, I'm well aware of that. It's > just that I wanted to have that warm fuzzy feeling the comes from pretending I > had the cash to buy a dual processor machine when I bought this PC. > > I had planned too, but my laptop died and I needed a new box in a hurry so I had > to get what I could get. It's a decent motherboard though, for being single > processor. > > On the other hand, I did identify that you can't power off with smp enabled > unless (as someone helpfully posted) you give this parameter in lilo or grub: > > apm=power-off > > While the SMP config option says APM doesn't work if you have SMP enabled (so I > should have known), it would be helpful to mention that you can still power off > this way. It would be even more helpful to make this into a kernel configuration option dependant on the SMP setting (disable APM configuration, and ask 'Power off machine on shutdown?' instead). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/