I'm just now reading the original post.... Missed it earlier.
- Soft Power-Off: I used the APM-BIOS in my Original Setup for this. I understand that LinuxBIOS doesn't implement such BIOS functions. I also found a kernel patch that implements this feature for SIS-Chipsets. Is there a possibility to get that thin running on a BX board?
ADLO might help you here but I don't remember if it supports APM or not. I'm also not sure if the Bochs bios code is still going to be present in ram after you boot linux.
- HD-Spindown: Same as above, simply doesnt work with my current LinuxBIOS setup
I though hdparm could do this.
- VGA: The Multitainer has an onboard MPACT2 Graphics adapter. It would be nice to have, but not really required. From the docs, I think I could make it work using ADLO or with the builtin VGA support. What do you think?
See my other post.
- Wake on RTC: Not even the original BIOS supported this. Anyway I don't think its a hardware limitation. Do you think it is possible to implement this for LinuxBIOS?
There is an internal RTC in the 440bx which supports an alarm function via irq8. These pins are also muxed with some GPIO. So it's not a limit of the 440bx but it might be a limit of your motherboard depending on what they did with those pins. If they are using that pin as a GPI then I don't think you can enable the internal IRQ8. Or if they have an external IRQ8 you will have problems as well. Unless of course its an external RTC. But I don't know why you would do that when an internal one exists already.
Either way there isn't any software support for it in Linuxbios. Doing a suspend requires lots of register saving and then restoring in the right order. I'm not even sure if all the documentation on what registers to set/read is available via the Intel's site docs. Some reverse engineering with a 440bx based laptop system might have to occur.
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