I can confirm that this behaviour is OpenBSD specific,
at least on my HP pavilion dv2000.
I have also linux and netbsd here and they shutdown -p now fine.
Fulvio
At Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:16:57 +0000,
Matthew Szudzik wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 09:34:38AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> > What happens here is that the bios lies and tells us to write a value to
> > some register and nothing happens. We have debugged several of these
> > machines and all to the same avail; we are doing it right but nothing
> > happens. Maybe it is an idea to complain to the vendor.
>
> Has anyone run FreeBSD, Linux, or Windows on machines that have
> experienced this bug?
>
> If there's an open source operating system that doesn't have this bug,
> then we can look at their code and see how they fixed it. If all
> operating systems have this bug, then there's no hope of fixing it.
