From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Dec 12 07:41:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA02978 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 07:41:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from miris.lcs.mit.edu (miris.lcs.mit.edu [18.111.0.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA02973; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 07:41:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from beng@miris.lcs.mit.edu) Received: from miris.lcs.mit.edu (beng@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by miris.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA02595; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 10:41:03 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199812121541.KAA02595@miris.lcs.mit.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Warner Losh cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP : laptop power-down change In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:39:19 MST." <199812111739.KAA03402@harmony.village.org> From: Benjamin Greenwald X-Sender: beng@lcs.mit.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 10:41:02 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Might I suggest that if you are so desperate for the old semantics: alias halt='/sbin/halt -p' -Ben > In message <199812110803.AAA00533@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: > : > : Why the change? The current behavior seems right to me. > : Yes. There is a perfectly good set of run-time options which allow you > : to determine at any time whether you want to power-off or halt; having > : a kernel option override this would be stupid. > > But the i386 code doesn't *HAVE* a rom monitor to drop back into... > We just go into a loop that says press any key to reboot. Not exactly > useful. The apm code is i386 specific, by definition. > > There are many places where we have kernel options that override > stuff, I fail to see how this is different. At the very least I'd > like to make it a sysctl so I can set it in my boot scripts. > > Warner > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message