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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Lid support for ACPI
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>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.

michaelkjohnson

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