acpi_power_off called .... but does not shut down

[James Wilkinson]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> I hope that other acpi items are not effected as well. I would hate for 
> thermal runaway to kill the box because of other broken items within acpi.

AFAIK the mechanisms that throttle or power down processors when they
get too hot are *not* dependent on ACPI.

This is precisely because processors will be expected to run without
ACPI, but there is never going to be a situation where you *want* your
processor to burn out [1]. So the mechanisms are supposed to Just Work,
without software support.

James.

[1] Unless Tom's Hardware want to make another video...

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