server_mode on Newer Powermac 1.8 (single)

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Aug 10 00:40:16 EST 2005


On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 18:48 -0400, Keith Mitchell wrote:
> I have about a dozen of the newer Powermac G5 1.8ghz (single) that has 
> the SMU (not the PMU) and I was wondering if it is currently possible to 
> get these things to automatically turn back on in the powerfail 
> scenario.  We also have some Dual 2ghz machines that we can set 
> 'server_mode' to 1 in the /proc/pmu/options file but nothing similar 
> seems to exist for these machines.
> 
> If I put OSX on this thing and set it via that GUI will the setting 
> stick?  I thought I had done that initially but I now have some of the 
> machines that will power back up and some that will not... but I don't 
> remember if I powered down after doing that setting before installing 
> linux or not.

I haven't yet done something for that. When I find some time, I'll
finish my new SMU driver and see if I can figure out how to control the
server mode ...

Ben.





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