Questions on BX Chipset

[ron minnich]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Richard Smith wrote:

> Meinrad Sauter wrote:
> 
> I'm just now reading the original post.... Missed it earlier.
> 
> > - Soft Power-Off: I used the APM-BIOS in my Original Setup for this. I 
> > understand that LinuxBIOS doesn't implement such BIOS functions. I also found 
> > a kernel patch that implements this feature for SIS-Chipsets. Is there a 
> > possibility to get that thin running on a BX board?
> 
> ADLO might help you here but I don't remember if it supports APM or not. 
>   I'm also not sure if the Bochs bios code is still going to be  present 
> in ram after you boot linux.

I would recommend extending the power patches I made to linux long ago. 
These patches allower soft power off and reset.

> 
> > - HD-Spindown: Same as above, simply doesnt work with my current LinuxBIOS 
> > setup
> 
> I though hdparm could do this.

I thought so too ...

ron