From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Christian Hofstaedtler <ch@zeha.at>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com,
arjan@infradead.org, bruce.w.allan@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Default to ACPI reboots on newish X86 hardware
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:06:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B442865.7020500@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201001051926.30580.ch@zeha.at>
On 01/05/2010 10:26 AM, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote:
>>
>> Why assume it is a buggy *new* BIOS rather than a buggy *old* BIOS?
>
> Well, this is the same as with CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR. But yeah, I've also
> thought about it, but then *I* really don't know how many such broken BIOSes
> are there in the wild. And how many of them are new enough.
>
> Also, I think we could push the year even more up, say, to 2009. On the
> assumption that such new hardware which can't do BOOT_KBD is only being
> produced now (late 2009). Better err on the safe side?
>
2006-ish seems like a reasonable cutoff to me.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-06 6:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-03 20:23 Linux* is not supported on the Intel(R) Desktop Board DP55KG - Kernel still hangs upon reboot Christian Hofstaedtler
2010-01-03 21:40 ` Justin Piszcz
2010-01-03 23:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-03 23:34 ` Christian Hofstaedtler
2010-01-04 5:47 ` Yuhong Bao
2010-01-04 15:16 ` David John
2010-06-11 2:16 ` Yuhong Bao
2010-01-04 16:21 ` [PATCH] Add DMI quirk for Intel DP55KG mainboard Christian Hofstaedtler
2010-01-04 17:15 ` Len Brown
2010-01-04 17:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 22:03 ` Len Brown
2010-01-05 2:15 ` Robert Hancock
2010-01-05 3:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-05 12:30 ` [PATCH] Default to ACPI reboots on newish X86 hardware Christian Hofstaedtler
2010-01-05 17:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-05 18:26 ` Christian Hofstaedtler
2010-01-06 6:06 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-01-06 19:38 ` Len Brown
2010-01-07 20:03 ` Christian Hofstaedtler
2010-01-07 20:05 ` Christian Hofstaedtler
2010-01-07 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-20 5:21 ` Len Brown
2010-01-21 17:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: Unify reboot_type selection Christian Hofstaedtler
2010-01-21 17:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] Default to ACPI reboots on newish X86 hardware Christian Hofstaedtler
2010-01-23 19:57 ` Len Brown
2010-01-21 18:29 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: Unify reboot_type selection H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-21 17:24 ` [PATCH] Default to ACPI reboots on newish X86 hardware Christian Hofstaedtler
2010-01-05 1:45 ` [PATCH] Add DMI quirk for Intel DP55KG mainboard Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-06 14:36 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-01-06 19:26 ` Len Brown
2010-01-06 19:36 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-01-06 20:22 ` Len Brown
2010-01-06 20:29 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-01-06 21:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-20 5:06 ` Len Brown
2010-01-07 1:15 ` Robert Hancock
2010-01-06 7:41 ` Pavel Machek
2010-01-06 14:51 ` Alan Cox
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