From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Subject: Re: pmac_halt() bug
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Tim Seufert <tas@mindspring.com>
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	Igal Baevsky <igal.baevsky@terayon.com>
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>
> That's precisely it.  Some (all?) pmacs with server mode don't
> automatically turn on after an intentional shutdown, only after power
> is lost.  So the idea is to have the UPS signal the computer to halt,
> and then have the UPS cut power once it's safe.  Later the UPS switches
> power back on and the computer will automatically boot.

Ok, 2 things:

- How does the UPS knows it's "safe" ?
- And right, I need to disable server mode to be able to shut down :) So
I indeed to that on those machines

Ben.


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