Re: [ppc patch] add "enter" command

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Sep 14, 2004, at 7:54 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:

> On Tuesday 14 September 2004 13:50, M. Gerards wrote:
> > Actually, we can make it something generic.  I can imagine it is
> > possible to go back to the firmware with other kinds of firmware
> > as well.  How about something unix like, "suspend" for example.
> > Other than that we could implement generic commands like "exit",
> > "reboot", "halt", "powerdown", for example.
>
> "suspend" looks good. It is impossible on PC, though.
>
> "reboot" and "halt" are nice. They are implemented for GRUB Legacy and 
> I
> want them in GRUB 2 as well.

"reboot" and "halt" will also be implemented as commands that call Open 
Firmware, but since the user wouldn't see that I think it would be ok 
to name the "enter" command "openfirmware".

On the other hand is such a thing possible under e.g. EFI firmware? 
Perhaps we should name it a more generic "firmware", just as "reboot" 
can be expected to work across architectures (if we were naming things 
OF-style we would call that "reset-all").

-Hollis