SMU-base PowerMac and server_mode

[Romain Goyet]

Hi Ben,

So, I'm coming back to you about setting "server_mode" on SMU-based
PPC machines. You know, so that the machine reboots after a power
failure. Would you have a little time now ? Thanks a lot !

 - Romain


On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 12:31 +0200, Romain Goyet wrote:
>> Hi Benjamin !
>>
>>
>>   Actually I saw a post where you mentioned this tool on Google. I
>> then searched it for like an hour or so, but really couldn't find it.
>> That's why I ended up posting on this mailing list. I'm really glad
>> you're on it by the way ! Anyway, like I said : I really looked for
>> this tool, but couldn't find it…
>
> Hrm... ok. I'll have to figure it out again. No time right now, but
> get back to me next month after Kernel Summit and I'll see what i can
> do.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>
>>
>> Thanks a lot !
>>
>>
>>  - Romain
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>>
>>         On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 11:16 +0200, Romain Goyet wrote:
>>         > Hi there,
>>         >
>>         >
>>         >   I have this Quad G5 here, running GentooPPC64. Runs fine.
>>         Had a hard
>>         > time getting it to boot without a screen attached, but I
>>         eventually
>>         > managed to (yaboot was the culprit). However, this machine
>>         is
>>         > SMU-based, and I couldn't find a way to enable the
>>         equivalent of the
>>         > PMU's "server_mode" (i.e. automatically reboot after a power
>>         failure).
>>         > Is there any known way to do that ?
>>
>>
>>         I'm pretty sure I reverse engineered the necessary command a
>>         while back
>>         and somebody wrote a userland tool to set it, but I can't find
>>         it
>>         anymore :-)
>>
>>         Google may help. Let me know if you can't find it.
>>
>>         Cheers,
>>         Ben.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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