Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 14:15:06 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP : laptop power-down change Message-ID: <199812112115.OAA04520@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:54:51 PST." <199812111954.LAA27864@bubba.whistle.com> References: <199812111954.LAA27864@bubba.whistle.com>
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In message <199812111954.LAA27864@bubba.whistle.com> Archie Cobbs writes: : FreeBSD is (ideally) independent of specific architectures/hardware. : Therefore, to be consistent and non-hardware-specific FreeBSD should : support both -h and -p. Agreed. : Now in the subcase that you're running FreeBSD on i386 with no monitor : ROM, then I don't what's wrong with making '-h' and '-p' degenerate, : ie, they both do the same thing: halt the system and cause a power off. Also agreed. For a power managed i386 system, I see no benefit from not mapping the two to the same thing. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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