linux-kernel - Re: halt does not shut the system down

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Date:	Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:29:41 +0200
From:	"Remy Bohmer" <linux@...mer.net>
To:	"John Sigler" <linux.kernel@...e.fr>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	robert.moore@...el.com, len.brown@...el.com
Subject: Re: halt does not shut the system down

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
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