In message <20040531.112143.74749619.kochi@NetBSD.org>, Takayoshi Kochi writes:
>Hi,
>
>From: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
>Subject: no ACPI reset button defined?
>Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 17:45:34 -0400
>
>> I learned today -- the hard way -- that the ACPI code didn't seem to 
>> handle the reset button.  Odd, I thought, since there is a reset 
>> button script in /etc/powerd/scripts.  A glance at the driver showed 
>> that there was indeed no support for any buttons other than sleep and 
>> power.  OK, it loooked pretty easy to add; all I needed was the device 
>> ID.  So I downloaded the ACPI spec and looked for it.
>
>As far as I read, there's no definition of ACPI reset button.
>In the ACPI spec, only power and sleep buttons are defined.
>
>> Unless I 'm very confused, it isn't there.  So why do we have
>> /etc/powerd/scripts/reset?
>
>That's because powerd isn't ACPI-centric thing, though I don't know
>whether there's any platform that can intercept reset button.
>
>But not all such button things have to be 'hardware button', so
>we could generate 'software button event' internally from the kernel.
>One way to do this is CTRL+ALT+DEL that generates a 'reset button' event
>to notify powerd (this is what someone proposed in the list
>some time ago.)

Thanks; that clears up a lot.  It might pay to put a comment in the 
reset script for now, just to warn people.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb