Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:54:51 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP : laptop power-down change Message-ID: <199812111954.LAA27864@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199812111739.KAA03402@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Dec 11, 98 10:39:19 am"
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Warner Losh writes: > In message <199812110803.AAA00533@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: > : > : Why the change? The current behavior seems right to me. > : Yes. There is a perfectly good set of run-time options which allow you > : to determine at any time whether you want to power-off or halt; having > : a kernel option override this would be stupid. > > 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. <imho> The theory is that halt != power down. Anyone can understand this because there are real world examples of (non i386) computers that drop into a monitor upon halt. No argument there. FreeBSD is (ideally) independent of specific architectures/hardware. Therefore, to be consistent and non-hardware-specific FreeBSD should support both -h and -p. 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. </imho> -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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