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From: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>
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Subject: Re: HEADS UP : laptop power-down change
In-Reply-To: <199812120614.WAA00825@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Dec 11, 1998 10:14:19 pm"
To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
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> > 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.
> 
> The APM code is i386 specific, and the Sun power-management code 
> (should it exist) would be Sparc specific, and if there's an Alpha box 
> with power control, code for that will be Alpha-specific.
> So what?  Power down means power down.  Halt means halt.  The two are 
> different things, even if one or the other doesn't have a significant 
> meaning in a given special case.  There are good reasons to halt an 
> i386 system rather than power cycle it, even if APM is active.
> 

One good use:

When changing some pcmcia cards that must be present at bootup for me to
use, I:

shutdown -h
put the card in
press a key to reboot.

I don't want it to power off in this case. Can we please not make -h power
off? :)

Kevin

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