[syslinux] [PATCH] poweroff COM32 module

[H. Peter Anvin]

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...

	-hpa