[Xbox-linux-user] Re: BIOS Startup Timer

[Jukka A. <juk...@ik...>]

Matt Ficken wrote:

> Many PC BIOSes now have a feature that lets users tell 
> them what time to turn the computer on. Do any of the
> replacement BIOSes for the XBox have such a feature and
> can this timer be adjusted by a linux program running on
> the xbox?

The original Xbox Dashboard has an "auto-off" function which,
when turned on, should power down the box off after six hours
of inactivity. 

Whether that function works in Linux at all is unknown. It
most likely should not work with Cromwell, but might work
when booting Linux with a patched MS firmware or the 007 
hack (that is, if the feature is based on setting some 
timer function in the microcontroller that controls the
power, reset and dvd eject functions and not on the MS
Xbox kernel alone.)

However, if the feature works at all in Linux, it is not
currently supported in any particular way and will probably
just lead to the power being abrubtly cut off, without any
warnings or clean shutdown sequences.

See 
<http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/articles.php?aid=2002176120542>
for some more information about the microcontroller and its
(currently discovered and documented) functions.

-- 
znark