On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Eric Brower wrote: > > The Ultra patch is not applicable. The SPARC kernel will not power-down > a system with a serial console attached; from process.c: >
The SPARC LX in question is completely headless... no keyboard/monitor, and no serial attached... only power, SCSI, and network... I am curious as to when such changes took place in the kernel, as things were working as expected with the 2.2.x kernels. > > void machine_power_off(void) > > { > > #ifdef CONFIG_SUN_AUXIO > > if (auxio_power_register && !serial_console) > > *auxio_power_register |= AUXIO_POWER_OFF; > > #endif > > machine_halt(); > > } > > If this implementation bothers you, consider coding-up a sysctl to > modify this behavior. > Is this a new addition to the kernel for the 2.4.x series? Or, would you recommend any PROM settings I could set to get the current default behavior of my LX to really power-off when I shutdown? --- Matthew Haas Squirrel's Law #209203923: "Thou shalt ignoreth Corning/Geneseo, NY all RAM specifications, they're noo scottish"