How to Power off with ACPI/APM?
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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.
Mike
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Quoted 11 lines · Michael D. Crawford
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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.
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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).
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