Re: [tip:x86/reboot] [PATCH] x86: Try the BIOS reboot method before the PCI reboot method

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

On 04/07/2014 03:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> So if I'm following correctly, we should be able to sort the methods
> into three buckets:
> 
> 1) known to (almost) always be 'safe'
> 2) may cause system freeze if they fail
> 3) definitely cause system freeze if they fail
> 
> We put the methods from bucket 1) first, in whichever order makes the
> most sense. Then we put any methods from bucket 2), in an order derived
> from some kind of likelihood of success / likelihood of hang on fail
> calculation. And at the end we can put precisely *one* method from
> bucket 3, which should obviously be the one most likely to succeed on
> the most systems which haven't already worked with one of the other
> methods. We can't have more than one bucket 3) method, it just doesn't
> make sense.
> 

Nice idea, but wrong.  The problem is that you have to consider the
probability of success vs failure of the type 2 & 3 methods, and what is
a regression or not.

> It sounds like at least TRIPLE and BIOS are 'bucket 3' methods, so it
> seems like we have to pick which of the two we think is most useful, put
> it last, and not have the other one. Of the new methods it sounds like
> EFI is 'bucket 1', BIOS is 'bucket 3', and CF9 is 'bucket 2'.
> 
> so, it sounds like...
> 
> 1) ACPI
> 2) KEYBOARD
> 3) ACPI
> 4) KEYBOARD
> 5) EFI
> possibly 6) CF9
> 7) TRIPLE *or* BIOS
> 
> is what you would say makes sense, right? And really all there is to
> decide is whether to include CF9, and whether to put TRIPLE or BIOS at
> the end?
> 

Yep.  And it has now been shown again that CF9 just isn't safe.  We do
TRIPLE as the ultimate fallback now.

	-hpa