Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759547AbXJLT3y (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:29:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756492AbXJLT3q (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:29:46 -0400 Received: from hu-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.214.231]:46369 "EHLO hu-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755330AbXJLT3o (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:29:44 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=I8oN1j5UHPNL0c8+yRpAftnB0vsHxsrikoqr8in9CGMlQNiyiiI01fRDynPoU6hzTPjAkSAsGY8unkanxeNEushB2aCMUS29AT6zSqlOeaCj8dbDolykR2+wfb6IT3DOE+9qElFA0A9LPl7S56aCvXYpOx4wb+OVwlTpZ4iuPrM= Message-ID: <3efb10970710121229q15de054al1cc5828389faff78@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:29:41 +0200 From: "Remy Bohmer" To: "John Sigler" Subject: Re: halt does not shut the system down Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, robert.moore@intel.com, len.brown@intel.com In-Reply-To: <470CA1BD.1080502@free.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <470A58AF.9080402@free.fr> <470B366F.4030306@free.fr> <3efb10970710091304g30ab5549u84a092d4de40368b@mail.gmail.com> <470CA1BD.1080502@free.fr> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 0f8cb3bcc8e96acb Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 764 Lines: 24 Hello John, > Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't see anything related to SMM in the > BIOS menus. However, the system has real-time constraints. Thus, I'd > turn SMM off if I knew how :-) Here you can find a driver that can disable and enable the SMI interrupt in the chipset. It supports up to the ICH5 chipsets, but by adding the proper device/vendor IDs you can also make it support newer chipsets. http://www.bohmer.net/smi.tar.bz2 > AFAIU, poweroff is equivalent to halt -p You are right. Kind Regards, Remy - 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/