Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 18:22:09 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP : laptop power-down change Message-ID: <199812110222.SAA00769@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:19:12 MST." <199812110219.TAA65481@harmony.village.org>
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(I've taken this off -mobile, since it's not useful there.) > In message <199812110200.SAA00591@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: > : RB_HALT means "halt", while RB_POWEROFF means "power off". On the i386 > : the two are a little blurred (because you don't normally halt except to > : power off) - this just restores some consistency. > > Make halt generate a RB_POWEROFF and a halt -useless generate a > RB_HALT. :-) No. RB_POWEROFF and RB_HALT have very different meanings. The PC doesn't have a useful means for getting back to the resident firmware, but many other systems do. That's what RB_HALT is meant to do, while RB_POWEROFF is meant to power the system down. The two are mutually exclusive. -- \\ 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-current" in the body of the message
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