On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 06:40:32PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:22:28PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > I question the relevance to most machines, though, as most SBus
> > machines will probably be using a serial-line-on-motherboard keyboard
> > like the sparc-non-64 machines....
> 
> No, this is a misunderstanding ;-)
> 
> The original question was: is the power button on the back of my U2 a
> hard power switch or a pure software button (like the front panel button
> on my U5 that does exactly nothing if ignored by software).
> 
> If its a software button, we could route it to /dev/power and make powerd
> handle it - if not there is nothing todo.
> 
> The power button on the keyboard will be handled on sbus sparc64 systems
> exactly as on PCI ones (although it's zs connected instead of com, but that
> does not matter in this context)

Well, I hope that the default behavior of this button won't be power down.
It's a bit too easy to hit, I think :)

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