Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261202AbUKWB2l (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:28:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262434AbUKWB0S (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:26:18 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:36023 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261202AbUKWBZN (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:25:13 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:23:33 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Len Brown Cc: Adrian Bunk , Chris Wright , Linus Torvalds , Bjorn Helgaas , Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: why use ACPI (Re: 2.6.10-rc2 doesn't boot (if no floppy device)) Message-ID: <20041123012333.GK17249@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Len Brown , Adrian Bunk , Chris Wright , Linus Torvalds , Bjorn Helgaas , Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton References: <20041115152721.U14339@build.pdx.osdl.net> <1100819685.987.120.camel@d845pe> <20041118230948.W2357@build.pdx.osdl.net> <1100941324.987.238.camel@d845pe> <20041120124001.GA2829@stusta.de> <1101148138.20008.6.camel@d845pe> <20041123004619.GQ19419@stusta.de> <1101172056.20006.153.camel@d845pe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1101172056.20006.153.camel@d845pe> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 801 Lines: 23 On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 08:07:36PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > Laptops have had soft poweroff with APM for a while, but desktops and > servers never adopted APM, so soft-power-off is generally a new feature > with ACPI for them. Nonsense. My 4-way compaq server disagrees with you. No ACPI on that at all, and it has fully working APM, even in SMP. Likewise, I don't think I've ever seen a desktop without APM. (modulo broken biosen). IIRC, APM supported this since the arrival of ATX power supplies, which was a _long_ time ago. 1996/1997 ? Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/