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Re: Help with powerbutton handling



On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 09:21:02AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> BTW, Debian 6 is EOL and is no longer security supported at all on
> armel (i386/amd64 have LTS support). I strongly suggest you upgrade to
> Debian 7 (wheezy).
> 
> Are you sure this is ACPI based? I thought that systems of this
> vintage would not use ACPI as it is only now starting to be introduced
> with devices running UEFI boot firmware.

ACPI is OLD.  It came out in 1996.  They are on version 5 as of 2011.
UEFI has taken over maintaining ACPI these days.

Of course on arm, ACPI is new for 64bit arm and has never been used on
older arm designs that I have ever heard of.

> For a device like this with a custom Debian install not based on one
> from the Debian installer/debootstrap, I would strongly suggest to
> have full-system backups, including all binaries and configuration
> files or at least a backup of the files that are different to those
> from a standard install.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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