Re: [RFC] halt --no-apm

2008-09-08 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 16:11 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Hi, I'm confused as to what halt --no-apm could be useful for. The code in startup.S seems to check for APM before using it. Is there any reason why users would want an infin loop even when power-off is possible? I guess the

Re: [RFC] halt --no-apm

2008-09-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 12:58:57PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 16:11 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Hi, I'm confused as to what halt --no-apm could be useful for. The code in startup.S seems to check for APM before using it. Is there any reason why users would want

Re: [RFC] halt --no-apm

2008-09-08 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 20:29 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Though, for grub-emu the problem you describe is not significant, since the BIOS isn't there to missbehave. Perhaps we could make i386-pc's grub-emu use grub_halt (void) instead? Fine with me. If somebody really needs --no-apm (which I