In message <Pine.NEB.4.44.0211041008190.21471-100000@lothlorien.starwolf.com>, 
you write: 

-> On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
-> 
-> # In message <3DC6B1BE.311F3E13@lmco.com>, Daniel Herman writes:
-> # >
-> # >   I am running NetBSD 1.6 on an IBM Aptiva 2158-240 (K6-2 CPU).  When I
-> # >perform a 'shutdown -p now' the machine will only halt, not powerdown.
-> # >This is an ATX motherboard which does powerdown under Windows.  Does
-> # >anyone have any suggestions?
-> #
-> # You need to have apm (or maybe acpi) in your kernel, I believe.
-> 
-> Question:  will acpi work on MP?  I know apm doesn't.

Yes; APM as designed pretty much *can't* work on MP systems; ACPI fixes
these design issues and so should work on SMP systems (modulo bugs or
shortcomings in our ACPI support, which is far from complete).

--rafal

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Rafal Boni                                                     rafal@attbi.com
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