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Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 01:42:42 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Lid support for ACPI
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Hi!

> >PS: This seems very strange. What if machine is so crashed so that it
> >can no longer shutdown properly. Will that mean that its CPU will
> >damage itself?
> 
> No, the ACPI standard requires CPUs to shut themselves down before
> any damage would occur from overheading.  Well, at least the 1.0b
> version of the standard did; I haven't read 2.0 yet.

BTW shut themselves down to halt, or shut themselves to *very* low speed?
Slow down to 10% speed is what my toshiba does. Is there way back from such
mode?
								Pavel

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