Hello Brian,

On Thu, 2025-07-03 at 03:55 +0000, Brian Goodwin via Grub-devel wrote:
> My name is Brian Goodwin. I've been using the GRUB bootloader for a
> long time and would like to make a suggestion.
> 
> Bootloaders for a lot of other systems have the ability to shut down/reboot
> the device by simply selecting an option within the menu. For example, the
> "Turn off this PC" button can be used to shut down the device in the modern
> boot menu for Windows.

GRUB is supported on a large variety of platforms and implementing such feature
would only make sense if it could be made available on all of these platforms 
and
not just x86_64.

I'm not sure that this is feasible.

Adrian

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