From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: default to reboot via ACPI Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:12:30 +0200 Message-ID: <20080826141230.GA5478@ucw.cz> References: <1219659087-17536-1-git-send-email-avi@qumranet.com> <20080826095032.GA309@elf.ucw.cz> <48B3D579.40502@qumranet.com> <20080826113317.520cbab1@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <48B3F3A9.8030709@qumranet.com> <48B40631.5090007@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Alan Cox , Ingo Molnar , "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48B40631.5090007@qumranet.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Tue 2008-08-26 16:33:37, Avi Kivity wrote: > Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > >On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Avi Kivity wrote: > > > > > >>Most machines are recent machines. > >> > > > > This is a bold statement I would say. Any numbers to > > back it up? > > > > > > Only common sense. Non-recent machines are barely > usable these days. Sure they work well as a firewall or > server-in-a-closet, but if you run a desktop or a server > that actually does useful work, you're running a > relatively recent machine. reboot needs to work on servers-in-a-closet, too. Anyway, I guess the change should go in. Lets see what breaks. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html