Re: reboot and halt commands for the PPC

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Jan 30, 2005, at 9:07 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:

> Hollis Blanchard <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On Jan 28, 2005, at 7:10 PM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> >
> > > On Friday 28 January 2005 22:08, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > > > > Isn't it "power-off" ?
> > > > > afaik, my sparc only understand power-off to cut the power.
> > > >
> > > > Is that a client interface command or a command for the command line
> > > > interface?  On my pegasos I have the shut-down command on the 
> > > > command
> > > > line interface.  The power-off command does not exist.
> > >
> > > IIRC, power-off is used on Sparc, and shut-down on PowerPC. I don't
> > > know why they are inconsistent, though.
> >
> > Unfortunately, neither are listed in IEEE1275.
>
> Right.  But I don't think this should not be a reason not to add this
> feature.  It works on both the apple and bplan firmware.
>
> Calling the functions after each other won't work on the bplan
> firmware, IIRC because it crashes.

Ugh, really? I think we could use the "test-method" call in that case? 
Or just reverse the ordering of the calls, assuming Apple/IBM OF 
doesn't crash.

> > Further, "interpret" is an optional client interface command, and will
> > not exist on systems without the Forth user interface (like PIBS,
> > IBM's firmware for embedded PPC). I think the flow will need to go
> > something like this:
>
> You are right.  Personally I don't want to add something like this
> until GRUB works on such box.  Perhaps the interpret call makes the
> box crash or so.  So I want to keep it this way until we can get
> access to such box.
>
> Is that ok for you?

Yes.

-Hollis