Re: poweroff problem

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
06 Apr 2003 15:24:55 +0100

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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

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