Comment 21 for bug 1376716

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote : Re: [Bug 1376716] Re: AMT NUC stuck at boot prompt instead of powering down (no ACPI support in syslinux poweroff)

On Wednesday 29 Oct 2014 18:45:10 you wrote:
> I just realized that ARM systems will never have APM, and ACPI is not
> going to be here before 16.04, so the right solution is for us to move
> away from using the PXELINUX poweroff file and use instead the ephemeral
> image to shut down.

I don't think we need to even do that. If MAAS knows that the machine needs
to be powered off when we get a rogue boot, let's just issue a power job to
turn it off.