APM/ACPI support?

Didrik Madheden didrik at kth.se
Thu Jun 14 18:28:21 UTC 2007


On 14/06/07, Michael-John Turner <mj at turner.org.za> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:12:17PM +0200, Didrik Madheden wrote:
> > Does the Sparc64 platform have some sort of APM/ACPI support? What I'm
> > most interested in
> > 1) having the box actually shut down when doing shutdown.
> > 2) having the box react on the power button and do a safe shutdown.
>
> Well, neither APM nor ACPI are supported by SPARC-based systems, but you
> can achieve (1) by using "shutdown -p". Works fine for me on the Ultra 60 I
> have running 6.2-RELEASE.
Worked - thank you.
On a related note, is it possible to wake the system over ethernet or
a serial console?
Or possibly make it boot when disconnecting and connecting the power,
when the machine is turned off? (I'm trying to make the machine as
accessible as possible without physical access)

/Didrik Madheden

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