Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 00:07:16 +0300 (MSK) From: Andrew Maltsev <am@amsoft.ru> To: walter@fortean.com (Bruce M. Walter) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: APM power off (patch) Message-ID: <199803092107.AAA05671@amsoft.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980309130831.21185C-100000@callisto.fortean.com> from "Bruce M. Walter" at "Mar 9, 98 01:11:15 pm"
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> > I've uploaded my patch (2.2-stable based) to > > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/am-atx-power-off.patch.gz > > > > What was done: > > - kernel apm driver now able to power off system > > - /sbin/shutdown has new flag `-p' to switch power off after shutdown > > The kernel poweroff stuff is important for my UPS work and patches have > been submitted via send-pr for a shutdown queue for a while. I don't > believe they've been committed though. We really need a standard (and > safe) way of requesting the kernel to poweroff the machine. What can be more standart, than ioctl(/dev/apm) for userland and apm_power_off for kernel stuff? Or should we call it machine_power_off() and place a hook in i386/machdep.c? With `restore previous power state' bios option it would be perfect colution for UPS support. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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