From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: default to reboot via ACPI
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:26:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871w0ct3tx.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080826095032.GA309@elf.ucw.cz> (Pavel Machek's message of "Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:50:32 +0200")
Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> writes:
>
> "ACPI" and "safe" in one sentence.
ACPI is safe in that a lot of systems won't even boot anymore without ACPI.
> /me bets this will break lot of machines.
The ACPI reboot is just a write to a IO port with a fallback, so it
should be fairly safe even if the field should be wrong.
-Andi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-26 11:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-25 10:11 [PATCH] x86: default to reboot via ACPI Avi Kivity
2008-08-25 10:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-26 9:50 ` Pavel Machek
2008-08-26 10:05 ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-26 10:33 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-26 12:14 ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-26 12:31 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-26 13:24 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-08-26 13:33 ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-26 14:12 ` Pavel Machek
2008-08-26 14:50 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-08-26 14:24 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-08-26 16:10 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-26 16:16 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-27 9:18 ` Pavel Machek
2008-08-27 10:51 ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-27 13:13 ` Pavel Machek
2008-08-26 11:03 ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2008-08-26 10:52 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-26 11:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-26 10:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-26 11:26 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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