From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Hofstaedtler Subject: Re: [PATCH] Default to ACPI reboots on newish X86 hardware Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 21:05:09 +0100 Message-ID: <201001072105.09665.ch@zeha.at> References: <1262894593-25563-1-git-send-email-ch@zeha.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from percival.namespace.at ([77.244.242.130]:59335 "EHLO percival.namespace.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750782Ab0AGUFu (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2010 15:05:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1262894593-25563-1-git-send-email-ch@zeha.at> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: x86@kernel.org Cc: hpa@zytor.com, lenb@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com, arjan@infradead.org, bruce.w.allan@intel.com On Thursday 07 January 2010 21:03:13 Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: > Newer hardware is assumed to no longer reboot succesfully using the > keyboard controller, but needs to use ACPI instead. > To not cause problems with older hardware, only hardware with a BIOS > date 2006 or newer is considered for this choice. Broken BIOSes > reporting a BIOS date of 0 are not specially considered, and therefore > get the KBD reboot behaviour. > > Also unifiy reboot_type selection code. So this is probably the patch with all comments addressed, except for doing some _OSI ACPI call detection. If someone wants to do something based on that idea, please do - I know too little about this stuff to be useful here. Christian