From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 11 13:16:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01460 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 13:16:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA01437; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 13:16:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0zoZvO-0001aN-00; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 14:16:34 -0700 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id OAA04520; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 14:15:06 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199812112115.OAA04520@harmony.village.org> To: Archie Cobbs Subject: Re: HEADS UP : laptop power-down change Cc: mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, mobile@FreeBSD.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> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 14:15:06 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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