RE: Burning Alpha!

["Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris debian org>]

On Fri, 10 May 2002, Rich Payne wrote:

> > Rich/Chris, Correct me if I'm wrong, It's been awhile. If the fans do fail or
> > the machine goes over temp on the UP2000+ and hwmon is running. hwmon can halt &
> > turn the machine off via the I2C bus. It may be worthwhile to install the daemon
> > on the remaining machines Eugene.
> 
> I don't remember if the power off code was actually ever code, Chris might 
> remember that better than I. In either case it was NOT the default 
> behavior.

No, it was never implemented that way.  There were hooks to allow for OS
shutdown, but not powerdown.  The definition of what constituted
"shutdown" was a moving target at the time and none of us ever got a clear
indication of what we were supposed to implement before we released
it.  There were plans to discuss it further and implement "the correct
solution" after we were to receive a more specific requirements list, but
that didn't happen in time.

Also, even if the code were still there to touch the I2C bus to power down
the UP2k+'s, I'm not sure that the SRM version that was needed was ever
released (again, due to the confusion as to what the proper implementation
was to be).

C