Reboot and Power Off

[djrikki]

Whats the official situation on command line means to Reboot or Power Down any* AmigaOS machine?

Why are some going to the effort of writing tools like Poff?


If there is a catch all way to do either of these please point me how to do this.

* this is the keyword!

Thank you.

[fingus]

It seems just the X1000 and 460ex can do it out of the box.

The older 440-Series can´t do it until a sophisticated update-procedure of the onboard-fpga is done so a-cube told me.

For the legacy NC-Amigas (uA1..etc) i don´t know if they support it generally.


But Yes, it should also be added to the Pulldown-Menu of the Workbench "Switch off" or similar Menu-Point.

[salass00]

It seems just the X1000 and 460ex can do it out of the box.

Pegasos 2 machines can also be s/w powered down by using openfirmware.resource calls as done by pegoff.

[salass00]

Why are some going to the effort of writing tools like Poff?

Because such tools take only some minutes to write and work well as a stopgap until an official solution comes along?

FWIW I released the code of my sam460off test program a while back which helped the development of at least the "poff" tool so I guess I'm partly to blame .

An official solution is being worked on but I won't say anything more on that...

[ssolie]

Whats the official situation on command line means to Reboot or Power Down any* AmigaOS machine?

A system supported shutdown mechanism is being worked on and will be made available when it's done.

Why are some going to the effort of writing tools like Poff?

See above.

Locking as I don't see any point in discussing this further.