From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.lixom.net (lixom.net [66.141.50.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 84913B7BC5 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 02:59:03 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:07:49 -0500 From: Olof Johansson To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: SMU-base PowerMac and server_mode Message-ID: <20091006160749.GA29195@lixom.net> References: <8028e5750910060216x134a8a9cm461fa5a6e87eb6bb@mail.gmail.com> <1254823882.6035.5.camel@pasglop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1254823882.6035.5.camel@pasglop> Cc: Romain Goyet , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:11:22PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 11:16 +0200, Romain Goyet wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > > > I have this Quad G5 here, running GentooPPC64. Runs fine. Had a hard > > time getting it to boot without a screen attached, but I eventually > > managed to (yaboot was the culprit). However, this machine is > > SMU-based, and I couldn't find a way to enable the equivalent of the > > PMU's "server_mode" (i.e. automatically reboot after a power failure). > > Is there any known way to do that ? > > I'm pretty sure I reverse engineered the necessary command a while back > and somebody wrote a userland tool to set it, but I can't find it > anymore :-) Yeah, I had one but I have since lost it. I suspect it was on the drive of my second quad that I wiped before I sold it, thinking there was nothing of value on it. :( -Olof