Re: Making powerd=YES default

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:14:39AM +0200, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
>       => that means that all ports/arches that want to see powerd(8) enabled
> and resident should now register a backend (nominal case).

What does qualify as a backend? For example some sparc64 (U5 and U10)
can generate a sysmon_pswitch event when the front panel switch has
been pressed. This makes powerd do a gracefull shutdown. But there are
no otherwise relevant power management features present in the
hardware.

Martin