Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Mar 2002 22:44:54 +0100 | From | "Udo A. Steinberg" <> | Subject | Re: [OOPS] Kernel powerdown |
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"Grover, Andrew" wrote:
> > Looks like the ACPI code is simply forgetting to turn off the > > NMI watchdog
That's right, however I don't think it should have to turn it off.
> Does the machine power off successfully using ACPI when the NMI watchdog is > not enabled?
No, it never managed to power off with ACPI. It works with APM though.
> Theoretically we should be turning the machine off, after which I'm pretty > sure the NMI watchdog shouldn't be an issue :)
That's what I think.
> but IIRC we are masking > interrupts and doing some delays before turning off, so the NMI watchdog > might not be liking that?
The problem is that it doesn't power off at all, no matter how long the delay is ;)
> APM doesn't turn off the NMI afaik so why should ACPI have to?
Imho the problem will most likely go away when poweroff works properly on my board. I can supply whatever info you need to make it work, too ;)
The board is an Asus A7V.
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