Re: Fwd: Fwd: New feature: a "poweroff" command

Jody Bruchon <[email protected]> Thu, 26 May 2016 08:12:50 -0400
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-8086
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On 2016-05-26 08:02, Marc-François LUCCA-DANIAU wrote:
> This is why, in such situation, if Jody's adds invocation of the BIOS
> 15h in ELKS, it should be surrounded by a configuration option,
> otherwise I would have to add an INT 15h handler in the Flash to
> return CF=1.

It has been turned into a config option. See CONFIG_APM. Note that the 
only thing the code does is call INT 15 three times, so as long as INT 
15 AH=53 doesn't crash the machine for some reason, it falls through and 
returns, resulting in an error message and no harm done.

-Jody

P.S. For anyone listening, please don't CC my email address if you are 
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