Subject: Re: Is the kernel designed to return?
To: Derek Peschel <dpeschel@eskimo.com>
From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@mac.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/13/2002 10:25:41
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 08:52:18PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> 
>> > Somone on tech-kern mentioned that the Sparc halts -- but then der
>> > Mouse mentioned that not all Sparcs do.
> 
>> 
>> That doesn't sound quite right to me.  Every SPARC I've seen drops back
>> into OF (or the ROM monitor if it's old enough that it doesn't have
>> OF); what I recall saying not all SPARCs did was do a reset if you then
>> tell them to boot again.
> 
> 
> Sorry, I guess I misunderstood you.
> 
> Anyway, the Mac doesn't halt as far as I can tell.


Here I'm slightly confused.  A G4 Ti both returns to the prompt (halt) 
and powers down (halt -p) when so told.  Sounds like some Mac's are 
having trouble.

Andrew