Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 15:50:56 +0200
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Dubiousjim <dubiousjim@gmail.com>
Cc: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] [PATCH] main/syslinux: update instructions for
 HDT, bump checksums
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On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 09:15:54 -0400
Dubiousjim <dubiousjim@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 03:05:29PM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> 
> > applied a rebased version of it. I had added support
> > for /boot/poweroff.c32.
> 
> Does that work for you? It didn't work here, and looking at the source
> says it's APM-based. I mentioned that in an earlier commit, though I
> misdescribed it as the "shutdown" module. (Or maybe it used to be called
> that, and was misnamed.) Easy to miss.
> 
> We don't even have CONFIG_APM enabled in linux-grsec. I don't know
> how compatible it is with current hardware and intermixing with ACPI.
> Last time I tried (a few years ago) it was a mess.

syslinux runs before kernel is loaded so kernel config is irrelevant.
 
> Maybe the module doesn't strictly require apm; that's just what the
> source comments say. And as I said, it didn't work here.

It worked here.

-nc


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