[gentoo-user] Re: Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

2014-12-02 Thread James
gmx.de> writes: -> It works now! --> I am happy! ---> Meino Fantastic! So now you are famous ! Now organize what you have learned and done and submit it to the gentoo embedded project, so they can include those critical details into the gentoo-embedded handbook under the "boards" section:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

2014-12-02 Thread meino . cramer
Hi all, thank you very much for all the help you offered! :) It works now! Robert Nelson, who maintains the kernel for the Beagleboard Black gave me the hint to try the kernel version 3.18.rc7 (mainline), which receives a lot of upgrades concerning AT91 systems, which the Arietta G25 is one of.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

2014-12-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 1:11 PM, James wrote: > > So no, not part of regular system administraion. YES for a transient > solution to an embedded hack. > No argument that when you're troubleshooting powering off just getting the thing to power off by any means necessary is a useful exercise. Howev

[gentoo-user] Re: Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

2014-12-02 Thread James
Joerg Schilling fokus.fraunhofer.de> writes: > > Does this accomplish what you want: > > "sync;sync;sync;halt" ? > > Do you believe that a method described for early AT&T UNIX (early to mid > > 1970s) where "halt" did not yet exist is a valid idea for Linux? valid has no value here. Meino

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

2014-12-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
James wrote: > gmx.de> writes: > > > > > > But: Shutdown (as recommmended by acmesystems "shutdown -h -H now") > > > > REBOOTS the system instead of powering it down. > > > > What about "halt"? man halt > > > The problem I think is burried > > Okay, ferret it out. > > Does this accomplish wh

[gentoo-user] Re: Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

2014-12-01 Thread James
gmx.de> writes: > > > But: Shutdown (as recommmended by acmesystems "shutdown -h -H now") > > > REBOOTS the system instead of powering it down. > > What about "halt"? man halt > The problem I think is burried Okay, ferret it out. Does this accomplish what you want: "sync;sync;sync;halt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

2014-12-01 Thread meino . cramer
James [14-12-01 19:12]: > gmx.de> writes: > > > > But: Shutdown (as recommmended by acmesystems "shutdown -h -H now") > > REBOOTS the system instead of powering it down. > > What about "halt"? man halt > > > What is the difference here? > > Isn't it, that all shutdown applications only se

[gentoo-user] Re: Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

2014-12-01 Thread James
gmx.de> writes: > But: Shutdown (as recommmended by acmesystems "shutdown -h -H now") > REBOOTS the system instead of powering it down. What about "halt"? man halt > What is the difference here? > Isn't it, that all shutdown applications only send some instructions > to the kernel and the