RE: Lid support for ACPI

2001-04-29 Thread Grover, Andrew
(btw ACPI 2.0 spec section 12.1.1 discusses this) > From: Pavel Machek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > 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.

Re: Lid support for ACPI

2001-04-29 Thread Pavel Machek
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 th

Re: Lid support for ACPI

2001-04-27 Thread Michael K. Johnson
>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

Re: Lid support for ACPI

2001-04-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > We already have lid support in the latest ACPI versions (not in the official > kernel yet.) You can download this code from > http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/downloads.htm . > > It'd be great if you could focus your testing and patches on this code base > -- I think it's a

RE: Lid support for ACPI

2001-04-25 Thread Grover, Andrew
> > It'd be great if you could focus your testing and patches > on this code base > > -- I think it's a lot better but it's still a work in progress. > > Are you planning to merge to 2.4.4? Planning on merging ASAP. That may be 2.4.4, we'll see. > > PS I'm not quite sure why you copied the acp

Re: Lid support for ACPI

2001-04-25 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > We already have lid support in the latest ACPI versions (not in the official > kernel yet.) You can download this code from > http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/downloads.htm . This site is as ugly as hell but does the trick. (And btw link to "kernel howto" points to list of h

RE: Lid support for ACPI

2001-04-25 Thread Grover, Andrew
27;s a lot better but it's still a work in progress. Regards -- Andy PS I'm not quite sure why you copied the acpi list *and* lkml.. ;-) > -Original Message- > From: Pavel Machek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Hi! > > Here's lid support for ACPI, please apply. &

Lid support for ACPI

2001-04-25 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Here's lid support for ACPI, please apply. Pavel --- clean/drivers/acpi/power.c Wed Jan 31 16:14:33 2001 +++ linux/drivers/acpi/power.c Sun Apr 22 23:02:25 2001 @@ -30,11 +30,11 @@ int acpi_cmbatt_init(void);