On 3/26/2015 9:49 AM, Duncan Laurie wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 11:35 PM, Matt DeVillier <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Greetings all!
>
>     I was wondering if it's possible to have Panther (Asus ChromeBox - 
> Haswell/Lynxpoint) power on when AC power connected regardless of the 
> previous power state.  Currently, the box will power on if AC power is lost 
> and the device was powered on, but not if powered off.  I have a use case 
> where it would be convenient to be able to power on the boxes by toggling AC 
> power (eg, the boxes are not within physical reach).  I modified the CMOS 
> default setting for 'power_on_after_fail' to be enabled and verified its 
> status with nvramtool.  I also tried modifying lpc.c/smihandler.c in the 
> southbridge code to force MAINBOARD_POWER_ON (rather than 
> MAINBOARD_POWER_KEEP) in all cases, to no avail.
>
>     Am I approaching this from the wrong angle, or is it perhaps not possible 
> with these boxes?
>
>
>
> This might be due to the SuperIO instead of the Southbridge.  Panther does 
> call it8772f_ac_resume_southbridge() which *should* be making the southbridge 
> the one responsible for the power behavior when AC is applied, but as a first 
> test you could try removing that call to see if the default SuperIO behavior 
> is closer to what you want.

Hi Duncan, I tried removing the call as suggested, but it didn't change the 
behavior at all.  Any thoughts as to where to look next?

thanks!
-Matt

>
> -duncan
>

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