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On 11-11-30 05:47 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Joshua Lock,
>
> In message<4ED6AED5.8070308@linux.intel.com>  you wrote:
>>
>> What do people think to the idea of putting something into the image for
>> those two specific machines which aliases poweroff to reboot?
>
> I consider it a really bad idea, as "poweroff" is actually a very
> different action than "reboot" - the former should shut down and halt
> the system, while the latter should actually restart it.
>
> It appears both operations are not properly working and need to be

The hardware that qemu 'models' in both cases doesn't perform
this function either, so the behaviour is consistent. We looked
into fix it, and quite frankly, there was very little value in
fixing it, so simply using reboot was good enough given the scope
of the problem.

Cheers,

Bruce

> fixed.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>