[syslinux] [PATCH] poweroff COM32 module

[Erwan Velu]

Le 12/02/2013 22:43, H. Peter Anvin a écrit :
> On 02/12/2013 12:50 PM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
>> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> On 02/10/2013 10:30 AM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
>>>> This module is able to power off a system via APM.
>>>> It replaces the poweroff COMBOOT module.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt at gmx.de>
>>> Since APM has been a dying breed for a long time it would be nice if we
>>> could get a poweroff.c32 which could handle ACPI as well, if you have a
>>> chance.
>>>
>>> The extreme case variant would be to port ACPICA to a .c32 library
>>> module, I guess... certainly useful but probably extreme.
>> There was an attempt by Andy Walls in March 2012 [1][2].
>>
>> [1] http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2012-March/017658.html
>> [2] http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2012-March/017661.html
>>
>> Sebastian
>>
> We should get that merged..
Shouldn't get acpica inside com32 directly to let other modules having the potential benefit of it ?
Having it under com32/acpioff sounds restrictive for me.