I haven't tried halt command but have tried shutdown -h -P now, I assume 
these are the same.

I am able to shut the board down but the LCD4 Cape that I am using (from 
CircuitCo) stills lit which is besides the power drain is not desired as a 
device that is shutdown should be shut down as far the as end user is 
concerned - now it just looks broken.

I suspect that shutdown is not 'OFF' and am hoping that using settings 
described will work - I was actually hoping for a quick proof of concept to 
check as I am not sure that this will work - I suspect it will as this is 
what I understand pushing the power down button essentially does - sadly in 
my case, the power button is not exposed to end user.



On Monday, June 23, 2014 4:30:16 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Colin Bester <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > I am looking to fully power down a battery backed beaglebone black 
> running 
> > debian distro. 
> > 
> > Looking through the TRM and TPS65217 document it appears that I can 
> power 
> > device OFF (as opposed to SLEEP) by setting bit 7 in TPS65217 Status 
> > register and then causing PWE_EN pin to go low. 
> > 
> > Only way (under software control) that I can see to do this is via 
> setting 
> > ALARM2 in RTC registers and setting POWER_ENABLE_EN bit (also referred 
> to in 
> > thread 
> > 
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/PMIC_POWER_EN/beagleboard/K7DuusrJ6G4/ln4so6f0Vj4J)
>  
>
> > 
> > Makes sense, i2c control of TPS65217 is easy but I don't see how to 
> write to 
> > RTC registers from user space. 
> > 
> > I'd appreciate any pointers - is it possible using device tree overlay, 
> as I 
> > see promising looking end points in 
> /sys/devices/ocp.3/44e3e000.rtc/power 
>
> Any reason you just can't call "sudo halt"?  As that will shutdown the 
> board completely including having the pmic shut things down. 
>
> Regards, 
>
> -- 
> Robert Nelson 
> http://www.rcn-ee.com/ 
>

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