[syslinux] [PATCH] poweroff COM32 module

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/12/2013 01:53 PM, Erwan Velu wrote:
> 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.

Yes... we probably should just have an acpica.c32 library module.

	-hpa