Re: [OOPS] Kernel powerdown

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 15 Mar 2002 21:48:32 +0000 (GMT)

> sure the NMI watchdog shouldn't be an issue :) but IIRC we are masking
> interrupts and doing some delays before turning off, so the NMI watchdog
> might not be liking that? APM doesn't turn off the NMI afaik so why should
> ACPI have to?

Its entirely possible that APM has the same bug but isnt seeing it because
it tends to drop into oblivion before the timer goes off

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