From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 04:42:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 04:41:59 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:16400 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 04:41:44 -0400 Subject: Re: ACPI or Advanced power ... To: john@grulic.org.ar (John R Lenton) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 09:40:58 +0100 (BST) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), haiquy@yahoo.com (Steve Kieu), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (kernel) In-Reply-To: <20010623033630.B830@grulic.org.ar> from "John R Lenton" at Jun 23, 2001 03:36:30 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I agree ACPI sucks, but I have a SMP box that I need to be able to > powerdown remotely. Is there any reason APM can't do that? I mean, I > understand APM was never meant for SMP, but... ? You can tell 2.4 to do APM poweroffs on SMP boxes. It works for most BIOSes