Subject: Re: macbsd for 040
To: None <kallio@jyu.fi, owner-macbsd-general@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: Chris Caputo <ccaputo@microsoft.com>
List: macbsd-general
Date: 11/18/1993 12:13:31
>> So, I have had the wrong idea that all rom calls are documented in the
>> "Inside Macintosh" - so they have not?
>
>The "internal" ones are not, as far as I know. The _ShutDown is, but
>the entry point that actually reboots the machine or powers it down
>is not. At least, I think that's why Chris had to go digging for it.
Right. I didn't want to go through the normal process of calling
the API. The would have required a significant amount of setting
up. (stuff that MacOS does, but exactly what we didn't want for
MacBSD) Instead, I traced to the needed code, and I just jump
to it. Pretty disgusting, I know, but I couldn't figure out a
better way to do it. Hopefully someone will... The sequence
of instructions was only a few words long.
Chris
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