power-off of SMP machines

ddijk · n00b Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Posts: 42

I applied the workaround of

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=125620&highlight=smp+power

and it works quite OK, but still there seems to be a random factor in the shutdown (AND POWER OFF) of SMP systems. I don't know the official status of the power-off support for SMP systems (it was not supported in the past). Does anyone know if this is still the case.

What I experience is that sometimes the poweroff works OK and sometimes it doesn't. I did not find a pattern in it.

Can anyone say something usefull about this?

Thanks,
Dick

mike4148 · l33t Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 641

It works fine on mine. I've only tried it with 2.6.0 development sources and 2.6.1 gentoo sources, though.

That's not exactly useful, though

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ddijk · n00b Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Posts: 42

Do uou use apm or acpi? Did you apply the workaround of Luud (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=125620&highlight=smp+power)?

Do you pass special parameters to the kernel at boottime (like apm=power-off)

Or did it work out-of-the-box?

Dick