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

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 the 1.0b

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. BTW

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

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

2001-04-27 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 lot

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

2001-04-25 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

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

RE: Lid support for ACPI

2001-04-25 Thread Grover, Andrew
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. > - To unsubscribe fr

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); int

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); int

RE: Lid support for ACPI

2001-04-25 Thread Grover, Andrew
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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

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

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 acpi list