I wrote:
> >Once again, I don't get it....on all of these machines, none of this
> >should be necessary.  Under NetBSD, if you have a softpower machine (i.e.
> >a II-series Mac or the tower Quadras, I believe), when you do a
> >'shutdown -h now' it should powerdown the machine.  It certainly does so
> >on my machine.  On non-softpower Mac's (i.e. the Classic style Mac's,
> >LC's, and pizza-box Quadra's), NetBSD _will_ put up a notice that it is
> >safe to switch off the machine.
> >
> >If you're machine(s) is/are not doing this, then you've found a bug
> >(albeit, a somewhat known one).  Please send a PR about it.  However, it
> >is safe to manually power off a machine even if it has hung during a
> >'shutdown -h' as long as the disks have finished syncing.  If the disks do
> >not sync, it might be better to reboot, run fsck, do a 'reboot -n', and
> >then shutdown from the MacOS.
> >

Armen Babikyan wrote:
> 
> since what version has this function been enabled? it doesn't work with
> GENERIC#1 1.2 on my IIvx, and i don't think it works with GENERICSBC#26
> either. i get a nice message on the screen (just exited netbsd, hasn't
> cleared the screen yet or anything) that tells me that the system is safe
> to shut off now. i'll try some other kernels, see if they do the same
> thing. i never got the machine to softpower itself down while in NetBSD. it
> does in MacOS, though.

Hmmmm...perhaps the code to figure out whether or not to softpower on your
machine is a little bit off.  NetBSD should definitely be able to
power-off any softpower Mac's (barring the recurring problem mainly seen
on the IIcx).  Please send a PR on this, unless someone knows for certain
that this is correct behavior?  Softpower off definitely works on the
earlier II-series Macs, and I know of no reason why it should work on the
later ones as well.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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