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Reboot and Power Off
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 9:22 pm
by 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.
Re: Reboot and Power Off
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 9:56 am
by 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.
Re: Reboot and Power Off
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 12:24 pm
by salass00
fingus wrote: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.
Re: Reboot and Power Off
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 12:52 pm
by salass00
djrikki wrote: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...
Re: Reboot and Power Off
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 4:41 pm
by ssolie
djrikki wrote: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.
djrikki wrote: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.