From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, 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: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:13:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080827131312.GA6221@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48B531BD.20608@qumranet.com>
On Wed 2008-08-27 13:51:41, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> >I'd not count of this. When you relegate laptop to
> >"quiet home server"
> >role, the mechanical stresses suddenly stop, and I'd
> >expect it to
> >survive for long long years.
> >
>
> For every user who uses an old laptop as a home server,
> or has a "best MIPS64 box", there are maybe five million
> users with a 0-3 year old x86 computer (they don't know
> that it's really a "box").
Five million... um yes, probably, and those five million users run
Windows Vista...
So lets not introduce regressions, please.
(Anyway, the patch is probably good, but 'old machines do not matter'
is not.)
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-27 13:13 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 [this message]
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
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