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Date:      Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:14:11 -0500
From:      Damian Wiest <dwiest@vailsys.com>
To:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: APM/ACPI support?
Message-ID:  <20070614201411.GA30491@dfwdamian.vail>
In-Reply-To: <6d7d37410706141128l2d6770e9r8f00db11ae334bf2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:28:18PM +0200, Didrik Madheden wrote:
> On 14/06/07, Michael-John Turner <mj@turner.org.za> wrote:
> >On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:12:17PM +0200, Didrik Madheden wrote:
> >> Does the Sparc64 platform have some sort of APM/ACPI support? What I'm
> >> most interested in
> >> 1) having the box actually shut down when doing shutdown.
> >> 2) having the box react on the power button and do a safe shutdown.
> >
> >Well, neither APM nor ACPI are supported by SPARC-based systems, but you
> >can achieve (1) by using "shutdown -p". Works fine for me on the Ultra 60 I
> >have running 6.2-RELEASE.
> Worked - thank you.
> On a related note, is it possible to wake the system over ethernet or
> a serial console?
> Or possibly make it boot when disconnecting and connecting the power,
> when the machine is turned off? (I'm trying to make the machine as
> accessible as possible without physical access)
> 
> /Didrik Madheden

Typing "poweron" at the Ok> prompt should work for SPARCs with LOM 
(lights out management).

-Damian



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