From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Nov 7 11:59:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA04568 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 11:59:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles356.castles.com [208.214.167.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04557 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 11:59:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05807; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 11:58:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811071958.LAA05807@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Haertel cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: another small observation In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 07 Nov 1998 10:22:51 PST." <199811071822.KAA00792@ducky.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 11:58:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > When I type "/sbin/halt", instead of halting back to the SRM > console prompt, the machine goes into a "press any key to > reboot" state, identical with x86. Then when I hit the any > key, it drops back to the SRM console and immediately > reboots without giving me a chance to get control. > > On x86's this concept of "halt" makes sense, since PC BIOSes > typically do not have a halted state. But on Alphas it's a > real misfeature. The SRM console is a lot more useful than > a PC BIOS, in fact it's the nicest console I've seen, and it > would be good to be able to get back to it. This is a consequence of my unifying the "halt" and "reboot" behaviour - the Alpha was doing it's own thing rather than the standard MI behaviour. It would be relatively trivial to move the "what to do when halting" behaviour into the MD code; you're welcome to submit diffs, and I'd be happy to talk you through what would need to be done. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message